"Malnourished Cultural Rights: the denial of responsibility by the Government, and the response of real experts
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Long Diego Sunday, February 13, 2011
Photo: Alejandro Ahuerma 
"Last time we were news because we cut the route, oil wells, but who will now bring the children dying of hunger, brother? The child does not speak, do not puede decir tengo hambre, y son sólo los papás los que los están mirando y los tienen en los brazos hasta que se mueren”, interpela a Miradas al Sur, Eduardo Paliza, integrante de la comunidad wichí. Por eso, esta vez, la sorpresa fue que el tema se instaló en los medios. Porque, el año pasado, a esta altura, la cifra de niños fallecidos duplicaba a la de este 2011, y la del anterior fue aún mayor, y la del anterior, más. Así y todo, semejante espanto no mereció la escena mediática de aquellos años no electorales.
De todos modos, las explicaciones periodísticas aportaron más confusión que otra cosa. “La radio y la tele, que están acá a la vuelta nomás, say 'is a cultural problem. " Lie. "It's an Indian problem, '" complains Paliza. "They cut the thread as thin. If we had all the land, the river, fish, fruits, plants, not asked anyone anything. How will you make a mother with her children, if you can not get the fruit, or fish? Here in the north there are a lot of wealth on earth, but how come if everything is wired and you can not go because they put you shot or you get sent to the police? Begins to unravel Paliza The death of seven children in communities driven from their lands in Salta recalls the drama of those who are not treated as brothers
In just twelve days, seven little girls aged between six months and three years died in the Department of General San Martín, north of the province of Salta. All belonged to the ethnic wichí and all died of malnutrition state in which they were. Most of the summer diarrhea was responsible for dealing the coup de grace. "The department of San Martín boat starts and ends in Bolivia", says the citizen of Argentina and wichí. Are a hundred miles of road. To the east are the soy, every day the planes are throwing crap and poison, killing indigenous people every day. To the west, are the oil companies that poison all the rivers, land, and kill animals, and nobody says. We are 2 thousand kilometers, but the friend President must know the truth, "he concludes.
Mind, tail and heart closed. Zamora also Octorina Salta is wichí and aims to counterfeit, "The poor, indigenous people do not have access to decent work, we can not have the financial means to feed our children. They give priority to soybeans and strip us of our territory, our habitat. One of the biggest culprits of all this is the issue of debris, land clearing, there are many people trapped by vast areas of people who are not even place. There are many patterns that we do not know. " Octorina
adds that the 17 communities (Wichí quom Guarani) living in the boat and ran out of territories, also face flooding each time it rains. "On top, boat is in a transition zone between the mountains of Salta Yungas and Chaco arid, the only green lung we have." The provincial Water Resources Department issued a report "says that the boat people is at risk by clearing a landslide." Octorina was in August 2009 in Buenos Aires, along with another twenty Wichí, asking the Supreme Court to stop the logging. The Court was already aware, six months before Wichí seven caciques had participated in the hearing, together with provincial and national governments, the highest court had ordered to make way under which stopped for a while logging and land clearing in San Martin, Oran, Rivadavia and Santa Victoria.
in the same place where babies are dying of hunger are the fields of Alfredo Olmedo. Soon accumulated about 160 thousand hectares. According to provincial sources, "going wrong, gives it a yield of 440 million pesos per year." Alfredo Olmedo son, now a deputy, said: "I am proud to be from the field and belong to a culture of work." But Salta say "no sweat is known, has never worked." The only activities in which it was before Congress and were Crocodile motocross racing and jet skis. The deputy ran in cleaner water for communities that bring from afar, in cans stored for days precarious and cause diarrhea. Summer diarrhea, normal for this time, altering intestinal absorption, resulting in the loss of water, minerals and nutrients. In young children, causes rapid dehydration. If not treated early severe consequences, including death.
The cultural aspect of the problem is also complex. On the one hand, members of communities realize Wichí discrimination they feel in the hospitals. On the other hand, or rather, the authorities should deal with the reluctance of native to western medicine. To make matters worse, the successful national plan to decentralize health workers and health care has its hesitation there. "The primary health care is the arrival of health workers to the territory, many of the community" describes Susana Tan, public policy specialist. "We had the health center, nurse, doctors were at the scene, but the province is now having a shortage of doctors in the public," he explains. The salary of a medical officer in the territory is paid about $ 7000. Gov. Juan Manuel
Urtubey launched an emergency plan with the intention to stop the spate of deaths. And in front of the plan put to Canela. Urtubey states that "if the activities we are doing is not enough, look for new and comprehensive strategies. If we find malnourished, far behind us the Ministry of Human Development, which has all the special diets food plans. We will be eleven nutritionists scattered communities, so let's work hard on this issue, "Tan is excited, and adds that there will be ten teams of specialists, academics and indigenous people who work" community by community. About forty people would be included to work in all the territory from Pocitos Pichanal up. " Canela
know "The problems that we face is not just about a problem of access to food, but with an educational process, with access to health, decent living conditions. All that makes a person and a family to change their situation of vulnerability and overcome specific problems such as this, "he said.
The Universal by Son also reaches these places to not even reach the water. Wichí some perceive it, but others are unable because they have no documents. Ana Inés Soruco Nutritionist Wynne is Jujuy, but works with communities in Salta. Emphasizes the mistake of not considering multiculturalism in the field of health and refers to the experience of Venezuela, Mexico and Chile. The trans-Andean South settled in the Mapuche "intercultural hospital where machis
, the Mapuche healers have a place in hospitals, working in partnership with traditional health workers."
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