Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta presented her “indeclinable” resignation to the Ministry of Women after the eviction of Mapuches in Villa Mascardi

The Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity of the Nation, Elizabeth Gomez Alcortapresented his “indeclinable” resignation from his position that he assumed in December 2019, following denouncing human rights violations in the eviction operation in the Mapuche community in Villa Mascardi.

Through a letter presented to the president Alberto Fernandezwith a copy to the Chief of Staff, John Manzurthe now former official said that “the publicly known events unleashed in Villa Mascardi due to the eviction ordered once morest the community Lafken Winkul Mapuin which they were produced arrests of women and childrenwith the participation of federal forces I find them incompatible with the values ​​that I defend as a political project”.

In the text, Gómez Alcorta criticizes “the imprisonment, the denial of release for all of them and even more so for a 40-week pregnant woman, the incommunicado detention and the transfer to more than 1,500 kilometers from her place of residence. “, as “constitute clear violations of human rights”. And if he assures that the substitute judge Silvina Domínguez had “direct responsibility” in the eviction instructions, “it deserves a forceful political response from the National Executive.”

“Personally, I feel that with this fact a limit has been transposedso I must step aside so that another person can take over the important responsibility of being in charge of this Ministry”, he maintains in the letter.

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