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On Aug. 22, the government of Chaco province in northeastern Argentina signed a broad accord with representatives of the Chaco Indigenous Institute (IdACH) on land and budget issues in an effort to end a nearly three-month-old indigenous protest. Since June 6, some 500 indigenous people from rural areas of the province have been camped out in front of the provincial government building in the provincial capital, Resistencia, to demand land distribution, education and health care for Chaco’s indigenous communities, among other demands. Chaco, Argentina’s poorest province, is home to 60,000 indigenous people of the Toba, Mocovi and Wichi ethnic groups.

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Indigenous Protesters Set to Starve to Death for Land
By Marcela Valente, IPS News
August 10, 2006

BUENOS AIRES (IPS) - A group of indigenous people in the Argentine province of Chaco have been on a hunger strike for 21 days, in the provincial capitol building. They are in a windowless hearing room furnished only with a table and eight chairs, with the electric lights switched on day and night, and surrounded by police.

“Imagine what it’s like for us, accustomed as we are to our forests and rivers, to be cooped up here like prisoners, escorted by guards even to the bathroom, sleeping …