Their innocence and audacity open up infinite possibilities on the asphalt before our steps, for an eternity more of pure water. But they want to separate them, to take one to the Cacheuta prison, the other to Estrada or Boulogne Sur Mer. The Gollano brothers, Renzo and Facundo, risk spending Christmas and a summer of their lives in prison for a crime they did not commit. Because it is not about that, but about walking side by side, in an instant, like flashes of clarity, where the struggle becomes collective poetry, that is, something that the police will never be able to take away from us or understand. Tired of the kilometers we have traveled from the Three Oases to try to prevent a scam to the people of Mendoza, where what we risk is the only river that a million and a half relatives drink from, downstream. That is why they are in prison. I didn't dare to tell Renzo's story. II The brothers are united, it can be seen in the marches. Facundo can be seen waving the Argentine flag at the top of the fountain on Independence Square. Moreover: they are in prison for trying to prevent the greatest crime that has ever been seen in these lands: the murder of the only river that supplies water to the entire Northern Oasis. And to top it all off, for committing the greatest robbery. And that is why those of us who have this bestial habit of drinking pure water are public enemy number one. Sometimes the game gives you another life. Facu doing eights on his bike, I realized, he is the madman of the tarot, the zero that initiates the hero's journey, with the impulse of innocence and confidence. It is precisely because of his innocence that the villain prefers him as prey. By Eugenia Segura Collaborative coverage by AnRed, Huella del Sur, Asamblea Uspallata, Que Arda Radio, Archivo del Agua, FM Alas y La Mosquitera I The year is ending, and the judicial vacation begins. A curious coincidence for the feat of water to happen during this time. Unless we free them both before Friday, let their union be true at any time, because everything, absolutely everything we do to defend water, is precisely so that they do not devour us from the outside. Source: https://huelladelsur.ar/2025/12/17/los-hermanos-sean-unidos/ Who decides what is too flashy, noisy, such a display of oneself, the one who gives. As soon as I stopped judging him, I understood the answer to the question I had asked myself from the beginning. Why would Cornejo want Facundo as prey. But chance has a color, and persecution another. Or doing eights with his bicycle through the streets of Mendoza, drawing the sign of infinity on the asphalt with a cane. I thought it was too much, but then I thought, who am I to judge him? They went so far that the Supreme Court had to come out and say that they actually have to guarantee our right to protest and cannot exceed limits or walk without their last name pinned to their chest. And sometimes a cherry falls from the sky, the one who helps you, who supports you in the dark, who guides you. The brothers from Jáchal can already say that they stole an entire mountain from them, which is now an ingot in a bank in Switzerland, Great Britain, Russia, or China, while our brothers left us a crater that can be seen from space. They were promised the same thing, and now they want to cover up another spill with bleach, which was only poison, and no wealth. I owe Renzo an interview, no, a deep conversation, because brothers are most often seen, like the 'pingos', on the field. When it extended to the brother, and then to the father, what color do you see it? For me, it's as if Cornejo, and the head of the operation, and the entire chain of command, were fabricating repetitions at will. Better than putting on the role of the one who asks questions one evening to write a piece and then disengage. Unless they really put themselves in our shoes. The 'hambrientalistas', the 'demodes', we are ugly, dirty, and bad, the culprits of the poverty and unemployment of the entire province, as if they had nothing to do with it in three almost consecutive terms. On this basis, they try to build a justification for repressive violence. And for people to believe it. Because they didn't take him when he was drawing the infinity sign with a cane where all of us who were marching would put our feet. They took him when he was protesting in front of channel 9, where the essential is invisible to the eyes of television, which is even further from the life that passes. Since instead of the Chavo and the Simpsons marathons, with which they pretended to be demented in 2019, the hegemonic media now have a prefabricated narrative of the demonic environmentalist who wants to destroy the fiscal peace of people who don't live here because they are based in tax havens. That any citizen has the right to read from a prudent distance that does not invade anyone. And so, it is ten pages that are worth knowing to know our rights, and to firmly and calmly set the limits that correspond by law, if the case arises. III When power marks you, whether you want it or not, you enter a video game where you become an avatar of an archetype that has to go through a series of tests, defeat the guardian of each door, rescue a soul symbolized in a thousand things. Chronicle of the persecution and harassment of water defenders during the 'Mendozazo', from December 11 to 16, 2025.
