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After the incidents in Lago Escondido, in which protesters moved to the vicinity of the mansion of British magnate Joe Lewis to ask for a public road, the Río Negro government adopted a series of security measures.

First, it deployed a reinforcement of police personnel throughout the area, for the protection of protesters and possible parties involved. Second, in the presence of people in the place who decided to start a hunger strike, the province “established an ambulance with medical professionals in the area for emergency care and eventual transfers, if necessary.”

And, in addition, a bus was made available to people who came to the area to ask for a public access path, so that those who wish to leave the property “do so as safely as possible.”

The provisions come to light following the incidents last Wednesday, the day on which the strikers were attacked, as explained by the president of the Interactive Foundation to Promote the Culture of Water (Fipca), Julio César Urien: “Column two mountain ‘Juana Azurduy’ came to the beach in front of Joe Lewis’s mansion. His people say they have to leave by a private road. We do not accept that. If they cannot go down the public road of Tacuifí, they are going to stay a week camping until they receive a favorable response”, explained Urien, who participates in the mobilization along with other political, social and union leaders.

It should be noted that on Thursday the doctor and Peronist leader Jorge Rachid and the councilor of the San Luis town of Potrero de los Funes, Guadalupe Arrascaeta, were evacuated, while interest in the situation in the place grows.

The Minister of Justice, Martín Soria, considered that the testimonies presented in the Political Judgment Commission of the Chamber of Deputies showed that there are “seven years of institutional decline” in the highest court and affirmed that “there are various sectors affected by its malfunctioning ”.

“We are facing a political trial that is not circumstantial; seven years of institutional decay are being judged. There are multiple causes presented for poor performance and there are various sectors of society affected by the malfunction of the Supreme Court magistrates,” the official considered in radio statements.

As he recalled, “in Brazil it was the judges of the Supreme Court themselves who annulled the investigation of Sergio Moro; here it is the Supreme Court itself that is generating this institutional degradation.”

Soria questioned different measures and episodes of Justice, such as the ruling favorable to the City of Buenos Aires for the co-participation funds or the trip of magistrates to Lago Escondido, and warned that it is regarding the “degradation of the institutional system that put at risk the foundations of the republic.

He precisely stressed that many of the accusations cannot be processed through the Judicial Council, because “it was paralyzed by the Supreme Court itself.”

“How important is the institutional mechanism of impeachment to clean up this Judiciary, which was co-opted by the macrismo and which does so much damage to the credibility and functioning of Justice in Argentina,” stressed the man from Rio Negro.

Facundo Jones Huala was transferred to the Esquel Federal Prison, in Chubut, while the extradition request requested by Chile is advancing.

Yesterday morning it was certified that the Mapuche leader was in “good health” and this allowed his transfer. The data is key since Jones Huala had been on a hunger strike for three days. Within this framework, the transfer was authorized, which was carried out by agents of Squadron No. 34 of the Gendarmerie on various mobiles.

Around 11 in the morning, he arrived at Unit 14 of the Esquel prison amid delusive shouts. Among them: “Out with Huinca. Marco wey. Mapuche national liberation. Long live the RAM”.

Thus, the leader of the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM), who spent three days at police station No. 36 in Dina Huapi (Río Negro), must now get used to the routine of Unit No. 14, where he will remain until his extradition to Chile is formalized, where he is claimed.

In this context, the Justice of the neighboring country approved the day before yesterday the first stage of the extradition, who was a fugitive for almost a year until he was captured in El Bolsón.

The decision was made in an oral hearing in which the Prosecutor’s Office and the trans-Andean government demanded the extradition of the Mapuche referent, while his defense rejected it because it was not proven that one of the requirements for him to be sent to Chile was met.

Now the case will go to the local Supreme Court of Justice to continue with the formal process that enables the transfer to the neighboring country.