Indigenous Women in Argentina Resist Fracking
Six Mapuche women are resisting fracking operations in the Argentine Patagonia by chaining themselves to drilling rigs.
Indigenous women in the Campo Maripe community in the Argentine Patagonia are actively participating in the resistance to “extractivism” by using their bodies to protest fracking.
TeleSur reports that extractivism is “a type of economic model that is dependent on the large-scale removal (or ‘extraction’) and exportation of natural resources”. Whatever you call it, the process of stealing resources and land from native and indigenous populations has been ongoing for at least the last 500 years.
The Mapuche people are located in the Campo Maripe community in the Argentine province of Neuquen and is an abundant source of hydrocarbon. The area has been heavily affected by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as it is commonly known. The controversial process has been linked to earthquakes and water contamination. The Mapuche and surrounding communities have been dealing with the effects of pollution from the oil industry for years.
“Chela is one of the six sisters in Campo Maripe, together with Josefa, Susana, Martha, Celmira, and Mabel. The only man in the family, Albino, is the lonko of the community, the origin of which is these seven siblings, and is made up of about 35 families,” Nancy Piñeiro Moreno, an Argentine researcher on the struggle of the Mapuche community Campo Maripe, writes for TeleSur.
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