He Indigenous Movement Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) was declared by the government of Argentine President, Javier Milei, as “terrorist organization”. This qualification was After attributing intentional fires in Patagonia and attacks on people and private property.
This Friday, February 14, in the Official Gazette, the decision was announced and official registration of RAM in the Public Registry of Persons and Entities related to Acts of Terrorism and its Financingwhich includes Hamas and Al Qaeda, among other armed groups.
Facundo Jones Hualaan Argentine who served a condemnation of Several years in prison in Chile for the fire of a rural establishment and the illegal carrying of armsis the known reference of the RAM. In the last decade, ha claimed the struggle of the native peoples for the recovery of the territory and the formation of a Mapuche nation.
He Government of the Ultra -Chista President Javier Milei He has not specified which other members would integrate RAM, which for days authorities from Provinces of Patagonia, in the south, They attribute the fires that have burned thousands of hectares. The scope of His representativeness among the Mapuche communities.
The governmental measure takes place after Jones Huala —Who arrived in Argentina in August 2024 after being released in Chile – The sabotages against “the infrastructure of the capitalist system, of the transnationals” a few weeks ago “. The activist publicly noted that RAM was not related to the fire that had begun – and is still active – in the vicinity of El Bolsón, town of the province of Río Negro, pointing out that he would never undermine the forests where the Mapuches live.
In its resolution, the Argentine Ministry of Security argued that RAM represents “a significant threat to national security”. He pointed out that “from 2010 to the present, when intentional fires claimed by RAM leaders The millenary Patagonian forests are razedthere have been hundreds of facts With terrorist characteristics“.
But members of the lawyers’ union, who have previously represented Jones Huala, argue that The inclusion of RAM in a payroll of terrorist groups does not correspond to the Executive Powerbut it must arise from criminal investigation, when for example its members are charged with belonging to an illegal association.
In the province of Chubut, the police arrested a few days ago Three suspicious people of the fire of a stay and the authorities linked to RAM. His action is being investigated for justice.
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