With hunger, disease and mass destitution has sprung a thronging popular movement to seize and settle abandoned lands on the periphery of the cities, mainly Buenos Aires. Fleeing the rackrents of the bloodsucking oligarchy who brand the okupas as ‘evil subhuman criminals’ in their bourgeois media, whole families and thousands of children are organizing and camping in their new allotments. And this despite fierce attacks by police, rightwing gangs and maybe federal troops. Surviving by mutual aid and solidarity, without water, sewers, or electricity in the winter mud.
In Latin America land ownership was always the sacred right of the rich oppressor, by brute force since the first invasion. It is still a large base of capitalist tyranny which sentences the majority to a life of hardship. Argentina is a bankrupt land of untold riches, eternally paying off blood money and interest on toxic debts to the US run banks, funds and billionaires.
Argentina is underpopulated, much of it is empty degraded ranch land owned by mega landlords. This latest ‘Land and Liberty’ movement could sweep Latin America, again, if not repressed by death squads of the fascist Right and their State.. As before, especially in Brazil, the only way left to survive may be to put our bodies on the ground and little by little create our own new barrios.
Land seizure in Guernica: historical mobilization, mob attack and one gunshot wound
Argentina. Conurbarno de Buenos Aires .. translated, with thanks,.. some Images by Germán Romeo Pena https://www.anred.org
Yesterday, an unprecedented mobilization was held in Guernica to prevent eviction and under the slogan of “Land to Live.” More than 3,000 people marched through the streets of the city to the Municipality where they were received by the commissioner and the government secretary.
As the people marched, a gang broke into the occupied property, burning down the precarious shacks and firing shots. Local officials pledged to stop the terrorism of the landlord s gangs and consider providing supplies to the popular pots (collective funds) and a glass of milk to feed the children.
But despite the promises, in the afternoon news arrived of the attack of a new gang and that one of the occupiers elected delegates had been shot in the head. The coordinator of the 4 neighborhoods denounced the “liberated zone”.
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