Request for help from the Salim Mission, a Wichí community where 415 people treasure the blueprints of some material houses

Published 2025년 6월 16일

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After 91 years since Enrique Santos Discépolo wrote his immortal tango, we notice we could update its lyrics and sing: "21st Century, jumble sale, problematic and feverish", because if we think that the tribe of the Araucanian lonco or cacique Coliqueo settled some 150 years ago in the northwest of Buenos Aires province, giving name to the town that would later be erected as "Los Toldos", because they lived in toldos, well in the full year 2025, indigenous communities in our country continue living in toldos, but now not made of poles and leather but of poles and plastic tarps. Such is the case of the Wichí community located in Misión Salim, in the northeast of Salta province, in the heart of Chaco Salteño. Soledad Vázquez is 29 years old and is a member of the community. She is the only one in her large family who has a mobile phone to communicate with the outside world and contacted Bichos de Campo through this means to request all kinds of help. Misión Salim is located 1 ...

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