From the North of the North, in Jujuyvery close to Bolivia, more than 1,800 kilometers from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the pain of childbirth that the Jewish Catholic Church, accompanying the indigenous communities and the workers who fight against the new local Constitution: without hesitation, they consider that this constitutional reform takes away their rights and the Common House.
On the banks of the Rio Grande, in the region of the Humahuacathe cry of three bishops, some priests and about twenty lay people, including young people and adult women, came to light.
In the town of tombayaalmost 50 kilometers from the city of San Salvador de Jujuy, met for two days, the bishops Daniel Fernandez (in the Jujuy capital), Felix Paredes of the Prelature of Humahuaca, and the Franciscan Luis Scozzina, in his capacity as head of the Aboriginal Pastoral Commission of the Argentine Episcopal Conference (CEA).
The ecclesial hierarchs were accompanied in discernment by the members of the National Aboriginal Pastoral Team (ENDEPA) and FUNDAPAZThe Foundation for Development in Justice and Peace is a civil, non-profit organization that has been working for sustainable rural development for 50 years, with indigenous peoples and peasants in northern Argentina.
“We met in order to reflect and find some ways that allow us to bring solutions to the critical and painful social situation of the indigenous communities in Jujuy,” they say in the document entitled “We bet for Peace” disseminated at the end of the meeting, which was disseminated on Friday, July 12, on the social networks of the CEA and through its spokesperson, the priest Maximo Jurcinovich.
In a direct message to the radical governor and vice-presidential candidate, Gerardo Moralesand his lieutenant governor of Justicialista Party (PJ) -already intervened-, Carlos Haquimurged the bishops and ENDEPA “to generate the conditions of peace and non-violence, which allow a space for sincere and concrete dialogue that encourages listening, proposing and agreeing on actions that fully comply with indigenous law.”
Bishop Fernández, who lives and celebrates mass in the center of power in Jujuy, had a gesture that was not overlooked. He absented himself from the oath of the new Constitution, leaving the reform of Morales and Haquim bereft of faith, which was going to take months of debate and what ended in days was rushed massive mobilizations repressed with violence (several young people have lost their eyes due to bullet wounds) and arrests (some of them in non-police vehicles), as reported by this outlet.
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In a message to the communities, the clergy and militants of God and the Gospel, called in ecclesial terms “laymen”, encouraged peaceful resistance and perseverance “in the search for justice and the protection of their rights in a framework of tranquility and respect that also guarantees the path of peace.”
At the end of the document, the three monsignors and believers offered themselves as a channel for dialogue and justified it with a phrase from Pope Francis’ socio-environmental encyclical, today more cited than the Bible by those who inhabit the mountains, valleys, punas and ravines: “Indigenous communities become the main interlocutors, especially when it comes to advancing projects that affect their territories”. (Laudato SI, page 146)
The Jujuy church, behind closed doors, was also discussing the legal actions to present against the new Constitution that consider it unconstitutional for subjugating ancestral rights and human rights such as the care of the Common Home. They assured this journalist from Jujuy that in the next few hours they will present an adhesion to the unconstitutionality lawsuit (of 68 pages) made last Wednesday the 12th before the highest court of justice in Jujuy, by the lawyers Alicia Chalabe and Laureano Marina Vilte, of the Environment and Natural Resources Foundation (FARN).
From prayer and community discernment, the Jujuy church knows the detail that continues the repression of the governor and his deputy with the arrests, now to the indigenous defense lawyers, such as the illegal operations such as the one that occurred a few days ago at the university headquarters in La Quiaca, repudiated even by the Jujuy UCR itself, Morales’s party that he leads at the national level. Hence, they cry out to the Virgin of the Río Blanco and Paypaya not to forget her people.
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Source: Ambito

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