Claire Fauset reports on resistance and repression.
Argentina’s media howled in outrage in September as a two-day blockade by the Paynemil Mapuche community halted oil and gas production in Neuquen province.
Community leader Elba Paynemil wants guarantees that their land will not be developed for further oil and gas exploitation. ‘We are peaceful people,’ he says. ‘We have been demanding these lands since 1900. Seventy per cent of our lands are already contaminated by oil.’
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