Union de Pueblos de la Nacion Diaguita

"They surprised us arriving at around 11:00 in the morning. Many were working and the children were in school. Immediately we saw that the police were crossing into the neighbor's land. We smelt the tear gas and right away they were breaking everything that stood in their path. They threw our few belongings out, they shot rubber bullets and they hit the women that were resisting. We defended what is ours as best we could while they [the police] died laughing."

(statement of an indigenous woman forcibly removed in Tucumán, Argentina)