The Minister of Government, Labor and Justice of Mendoza, Víctor Ibáñez, presented before the National Institute of Indigenous Affairs (INAI) three appeals for reconsideration against the resolutions of the organism “for occupation of lands in Mendoza territory, mapuche communities”, which it considered to be “absolutely null and void, and illegitimate, for which reason they must be rendered null and void by the body that issued them.”
Among the resources exposed by the Mendoza Government, Minister Ibáñez explained that they propose “The irregularities both in the procedure for its issuance, without the proper intervention of the province”claim “for the illegality of the extension of Law 26160” and the “absence of INAI powers to recognize land occupation to the mapuche communities”.
In addition, in Mendoza’s statement they express “the inexistence of historical presence of mapuche communities in the provincial territory. Likewise, the head of Mendoza’s political portfolio indicated that “the resolutions are null, absolutely null, and illegitimate”, for which they must be annulled by the body that issued them.
Mendoza Governor Rodolfo Suárez expressed on his Twitter account that INAI’s decisions “affect Mendoza’s rights and are manifestly unconstitutional” and at the same time denounced that the assets that “the national government is handing over” include the first unconventional crude oil wells on the Mendoza side of the Vaca Muerta block.
This week, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation rejected a complaint appeal from the INAI and annulled Resolution 90/20, issued by the Agency, which “ordered the delivery of 481 hectares of land to the Mapuche community lof che buenuleo” from the town of Bariloche, in the province of Río Negro.
