7 children dead from malnutrition in the last twelve days in Salta (NW Argentina)
Journal Tiempo Argentino. Monday February 14, 2011.
Monday, February 14, 2011
ARGENTINE SACHAPERA TIME AND Quebrachal 2, two aboriginal communities who lost their children 
Tartagal indigenous missions, victims of a "ethnocide" silent Published on 14 February 2011 For 
For Argentine Time In just over two weeks, the deaths of eight children of ethnic wichi in the province of Salta put back in the spotlight the drama of hunger in a region of the country hardest hit by poverty . Argentine Time visited the Hospital General Juan Domingo Peron, Tartagal, base of operations for an emergency medical operation ordered by the Governor Juan Manuel Urtubey and two indigenous communities that suffer from lack of access to the most basic health services and have recently suffered the irreparable loss of their children, in what might be called a silent ethnocide.
Health authorities in the province came by avoiding talk of malnutrition, and put to death in front of each diagnosis of diarrhea and dehydration, accompanied by extreme summer temperatures Salta. Now yielded to the evidence, although the governor is encouraged to mention a strange kind of hunger, "cultural malnutrition," he said. From day one, and long before, the Association of Health Professionals Salta (APSAD) preferred to speak plainly and bluntly discriminatory, malnutrition. The mission
Sachapera were two of the eight deaths. Nearly three miles of the city of Tartagal, and a house by the roadside, within several blocks of mud, flooded by the rains, the chief Salvador Guzman distributed "social cards" among neighbors. He cites another element that so far has not been heard, according to the representative of the mission, the model soy seems to be oblivious to the drama.
"We just buried one of the boys, who died malnourished," says Guzman. Hunger is a lot here. We wichis Guarani and in this mission, and do not know what to do now, because the only reason why we are dying, our children's hunger. We, the elderly, suffer from the lack of work. Before we worked with wood, now with the cuts and soy plantations, but nobody gives you work for now picked by machine and force no longer serves us. Now we were delivering social card provided by the government, which is a 50 weight helps, but imagine if that's enough to feed a son. "Guzmán added
seems strange that the large number of infections and diarrhea boxes that were appearing in the community that were not common. Suspecting that the water is infected in some way, the chief said that the river that passes by every time they bring more garbage and waste in the city. Pauline, a neighbor of Sachapera, said that "water white out" with much chlorine odor. "You do not want to take it," warns the journalist.
Alejandro Ahuerma (from Tartagal)
For Argentine Time Health authorities in the province came by avoiding talk of malnutrition, and put to death in front of each diagnosis of diarrhea and dehydration, accompanied by extreme summer temperatures Salta. Now yielded to the evidence, although the governor is encouraged to mention a strange kind of hunger, "cultural malnutrition," he said. From day one, and long before, the Association of Health Professionals Salta (APSAD) preferred to speak plainly and bluntly discriminatory, malnutrition. The mission
Sachapera were two of the eight deaths. Nearly three miles of the city of Tartagal, and a house by the roadside, within several blocks of mud, flooded by the rains, the chief Salvador Guzman distributed "social cards" among neighbors. He cites another element that so far has not been heard, according to the representative of the mission, the model soy seems to be oblivious to the drama.
"We just buried one of the boys, who died malnourished," says Guzman. Hunger is a lot here. We wichis Guarani and in this mission, and do not know what to do now, because the only reason why we are dying, our children's hunger. We, the elderly, suffer from the lack of work. Before we worked with wood, now with the cuts and soy plantations, but nobody gives you work for now picked by machine and force no longer serves us. Now we were delivering social card provided by the government, which is a 50 weight helps, but imagine if that's enough to feed a son. "Guzmán added
seems strange that the large number of infections and diarrhea boxes that were appearing in the community that were not common. Suspecting that the water is infected in some way, the chief said that the river that passes by every time they bring more garbage and waste in the city. Pauline, a neighbor of Sachapera, said that "water white out" with much chlorine odor. "You do not want to take it," warns the journalist.
The landscape of famine is the same in the mission Quebrachal 2, on the fringes of the town of General Ballivián, and also the same words the first to be heard: "We weary of so many questions and no solution. "Also, there died a boy.
Jonathan Felix, bilingual teacher of the mission, summarizes the urgent needs of the community: "Here we need sheets, the need for houses is high, only fifteen of the nearly 200 are well built, the rest is plastic roof. We also need to install the water pump. And remedies for the hospital, of course. But the main thing we need is for us to work. I am a bilingual teacher, but here we also need health workers who are bilingual and the community to know and understand our situation. "
Felix also refers to the rule of soybeans, and the fever that accompanies it: the agrochemicals. "Do not employ more laborers for the harvest, and chemicals, poison you take to the seed, water probably is harming us. Why can not we have so many problems with diarrhea in youngsters. Something is poisoning us. I, the age that I have, and although it may seem, does not reach the 30 -, I'm going blind. "
However, the core of the tragedy is hunger. "The little ones children and grandparents are the ones who suffer most, as usual, but even if they bring truckloads of food all together, this is not going to be able to just like that ever get. We want to let us work, let us restore dignity. We need urgent solutions and to build a community kitchen that provides basic food service to survive, "says the teacher.
Only when the sun begins to drop, the heat stops breathing a rare breath of fresh air. They say that the seven will get the doctor Urtubey, which is not the first time a governor comes to visit the mission. Félix do you expect the visit. "Nothing or almost nothing, and comes a little late. Hopefully be moved a little, at least, extreme poverty is found here, to see if they respond. "
Source:
http://tiempo.elargentino.com/notas/las-misiones-indigenas-de-tartagal-victimas-de-etnocidio-silencioso
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