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Post by account_disabled on Dec 24, 2023 6:50:47 GMT
IMAGE SOURCENATALIA FAVRE Image caption on for months The position of the more than indigenous groups inhabiting these mountains is complicated by the fact that many lack legal titles to the land where they have lived for centuries long before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in the s. Ms Machaca is a case in point. She lives on a piece of land her grandfather bought from the landowner he worked for. Back then it was all verbal agreements she explains but theres no proof. She and many like her who have no legal documents to back up their claims to the land could now face eviction Mobile App Development Service under a controversial constitutional reform approved in June by the governor of Jujuy Gerardo Morales. Portrait of Noelia Judith Kayo years old at the roadblock in Purmamarca province of Jujuy Argentina where native communities have been demonstrating for almost two months in. Defence of water and their land rights and against the constitutional reform promoted by Governor Morales on July . Noelia is the granddaughter of Narciso Lpez member of the First Maln de La Paz where members of more than indigenous communities walked from Jujuy to Buenos Aires to claim their lands to the then president Juan Domingo Pern in . IMAGE SOURCENATALIA FAVRE Image caption Among the protesters are teenagers like Noelia whose grandfather took part in a march for land rights in.
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