Betiana Colhuan, the Mapuche leader who does not recognize the Argentine state but charges three social plans

The operation organized by the Minister of Security of the Nation, Hannibal Fernandez, took note of an intriguing Mapuche leader whom he pointed to as the instigator of the most violent reactions of Lof Laftken Winkul. A more detailed analysis, however, revealed gross contradictions between what the “machi” said and her links with the government.

Betiana Colhuan is the cousin of Raphael Nahuel, the young man who died during a confrontation between Mapuches and Prefectural troops in 2017, in Villa Mascardi. At just 19 years old, Bethany she became the “anointed machi”, that is, the leader of the most violent Mapuche.

The way the young Colhuan She became head of the Mapuches and her economic support leaves too much room for speculation. In 2017, when he was only 16 years old, he appeared before the rest of the group claiming to have received a “supernatural message”, words from beyond, which told him that the Nahuel Huapi National Park was a sacred place, and that there they should install.

For the Mapuche, no further proof was necessary. Based on the curious revelation of Colhuanconsecrated her “machi” (leader, chief and spiritual adviser) and began to usurp some 6 fiscal hectares in which they built some precarious cabins in the middle of an idyllic landscape of pines and firs.

Months later, from there they began to leave to attack the neighbors’ cabins, set them on fire and sow terror to everyone who is nearby, under the protection of a government that did little or nothing to stop the reign of violence and madness that surrounded the scene.

Unusually, and despite the existence of dozens of historical and documented claims by peaceful Mapuches for lands that remain in the hands of the state, in no case the lands indicated by “the extrasensory entity” that spoke to Colhuan had been included in the claims. It was from his strange epiphany that terror began in the area.

The supposed spirituality of the machi Colhuan seems to have a clear limit: your pocket. Indeed, and despite the fact that it denies any type of authority or even the very entity of the Argentine state as such, the premium of Raphael Nahuel You have no problem charging for three social plans.

The day of the date, Colhuan every month he seems to forget the messages from beyond his ancestors and goes to the Banco Nación branch in San Carlos de Bariloche to collect the Universal Child Allowance, family allowances and the Home Program, which guarantees access to bottles for homes, dining rooms and neighborhood clubs.

Little by little, the image of Colhuan it became the Achilles heel of the Mapuche demands. In just a few years, he turned the documented claims into “divine messages from extrasensory entities”, the peaceful protests into violence and burning homes, the refusal to recognize the national state while charging for social plans. Ancestral rights sold to the highest bidder, for a few bottles and a little money from that same country that he claims he does not recognize. (www.REALPOLITIK.com.ar)

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