Members of a mapuche group of Neuquen blocking access to the site Loma La Lata from YPF and prevented the entry and exit of workers and contractorssome of which still remain in the inside.
The Painemil community decided restrict vehicle mobility in access to the oil field to complain about a problem that affects a living place in which members of the group reside.
The situation, sources from the contracting companies affected by the blockade say, originated “only for a home connection”.
The Mapuches mentioned that only one house, out of a plan of 40 houses, lacks bottled gas supply and this motivated the excessive proposal that generated a paralysis in gas production.
The company warned that “there are more than 3 million cubic meters of gas that, if the situation continues, will affect the supply in Buenos Aires and other points of the gas consumption network at times of high demand and climate crisis.”
He claim It began on Tuesday at 10 in the morning and lasted until this Wednesday. According to information provided by the affected companies, inside the site There are still workers who could not return to their homes and they are workers of contracting firms.
Since the Mapuches began the claim, They were gradually releasing workers. Some remained locked up from the morning until 11 p.m., at which time several of them were able to leave the establishment. Others were allowed to leave during the early hours of the morning, although a group still remains inside.
Yesterday, more than 300 oil tankers were illegally detained. The hydrocarbon industry workers affected by the claim are employees of YPF and contractor companies that provide services for the state firm. “They were without food or drink for the entire day.” denounce sources linked to the latter.
The Neuquén Police confirmed that there are still working employees detained because the leaders of the Mapuche community “They want to negotiate a solution to their proposal”.
The affected employees had to protect themselves from the low temperatures, without food or hot waterand to do so they used different areas of the facilities to take refuge.
Sources of the case indicated to Infobae that there were moments of strain when the detained workers confronted the claimants to request that they be allowed to leave.
This is not the first blockade led by the Mapuche community. Earlier this year, a group led a union demand for “discrimination and violence” and it led to a cutoff of the main access to the site, just as it happened now.
The site Loma La Lata It is one of the most important in the oil province. At that time, the provincial government intervened and summoned the Mapuches to decompress the conflict.
“We continue blocking the passage and we are going to remain here waiting for a response. If no one calls us, we are forced to strengthen the measures“, they threatened back then.
But intimidation is recurrent. “We are willing to do anything,” they stated repeatedly, to demand that their concerns be addressed.
The claim that began this Tuesday affected the production of the field, according to information provided by sources from the contracting companies.
