Benetton Trying to Evict Mapuche from their Lands

Syndicated from Intercontinental Cry on Wed, 2008-03-19

On March 4th, the Italian textile consortium Benetton filed a lawsuit in an Argentinian court that seeks to evict a Mapuche community from the land known as “Santa Rosa.” In February of last year, the Mapuche reclaimed the land after being violently evicted 5 years earlier.
The company claims the tract of land should be returned [...]