Indigenous Peoples in Tucumán: Diaguita Communities Defend the Territory

Photo: Susi Maresca The indigenous communities, nucleated in the Union of the Peoples of the Diaguita Nation, face a new wave of evictions, judicial persecutions and territorial violence. Testimonies from San Pedro de Colalao and Tafí del Valle make visible a structure of impunity for dispossession, which threatens the life, ecosystems and the very existence of a millennial culture. Tucumán, “the place where the waters come together” (in Quichua…