Since then, the community has been fighting to reconnect with its territory, its identity, and its way of life. They have made claims, conducted land inspections, but have received no response to their petitions for indigenous lands or as community lands. During the day, the community issued a statement reclaiming the territory due to a fraudulent sale and the lack of responses from authorities to their various submissions. The case is significant as it fits a recent pattern: communities claiming land are treated as 'usurpers' or 'criminals' in contexts of high territorial tension. Lawyer Sonia Ivanoff explained to ANRed, 'The issue is that the lands recovered or in possession of indigenous communities have a status similar to titles. I am open to dialogue.' Nevertheless, according to the community, the state's response has been criminalization, police operations, raids, and the judicialization of their claims. The story is that a buyer came and said he had purchased the lands, that he had been authorized to do so, and he told the community members, 'How can they sell you the land when my cows are there? These are community lands.' It is currently unknown in which police station they are being held. There is also a version that two more community members have been detained, which would bring the total to four. It would be four people, but I cannot confirm the names of the others.' The cases of Facundo Jones Huala – detained on charges of intimidation, crime apology, and criminal association linked to his struggle for land – and Juan Pablo Colhuan – detained after being a fugitive in the context of land recovery cases in Villa Mascardi dating back to 2017 – are not isolated incidents, but part of what various organizations call a judicial persecution of the Mapuche people. Attack on Mapuche community: Longko Juan Pablo Colhuan is detained. The claim of the Antieco community. The Newentuaiñ Iñchin – Costa del Lepá community, led by Eusebio Antieco, claims territory in Cushamen department, Chubut province, with arguments dating back to decades of dispossession. In 2019, Antieco stated that his community had 'peacefully recovered' an 80,000-hectare plot called 'La Chacra Los Mallines' because 'the stolen lands are being recovered.' The Mapuche-Tehuelche collective explains that they were dispossessed of these lands since 1948 and that they exhausted 'all legal and bureaucratic instances' without the state providing a solution. What is known about the detention. The latest information is that both left the community at 10 PM and were detained by the provincial police. So, unfortunately, this seems to be the context in which these detentions occur. As Eusebio stated: 'Here it is the government that must lead a dialogue table to find a definitive territorial solution.' This adds to the recent capture of Juan Pablo Colhuan in Chubut and the arrest of Facundo Jones Huala in El Bolsón, and for many voices it points to a judicial and police offensive against Mapuche communities fighting for the land. It is also suspected that two other community members have been detained. In another memory work of the community, it is told that the brothers Zenón and Manuel Antieco, facing the advance of the Argentine Army at the end of the 19th century, crossed the mountains and settled in Costa del Lepá, establishing there the ancestral base of the Antieco lineage. She (Susana Martín) is indignant and no one has given her a response, and what seems saddest, because I have not been able to communicate with her and the relatives contacted me, is that they detain her and Dutcher who committed a crime, that is, he cannot buy indigenous lands, he is not investigated, there is no charge formulation. Tonight, Eusebio Antieco from CPI (Costa de Lepa) and the werken Susana Martín, a reference of the Mapuche-Tehuelche Fentren Kimun – Costa del Gualjaina community, were detained in the framework of a claim against a businessman who would have bought the lands claimed by the community. And he tells them; 'if your cows are there, sell me your cows'. A short time later, in June, that was the land inspection made by the IAC, a buyer appeared, Aldo Dutcher, who said that the IAC had authorized him to sell the lands and that he had bought them and was authorized by the IAC. And it cannot be to authorize the sale of lands occupied by indigenous people without a ruling from the indigenous lands commission within the IAC.
