17 She is a member of the Enxet indigenous people. Here parents were from Yakye Axa; however, the witness was born at Estancia Ledesma, next to Yakye Axa, after her father went there to work. She lived at Estancia Ledesma until she was five years old, and then she returned to Yakye Axa. She speaks Enxet and Guaraní. At Yakye Axa her parents lived quite well, hunting peacefully. However, there was a change of estate owner and in how the people were treated. The people “were no longer comfortable there,” so they left Yakye Axa. Another group of families remained because they did not want to leave Yakye Axa. Currently, the Yakye Axa Community lives alongside the road, due to all the difficulties they have faced at that place; they have neither good food nor medical care. The rains affect their dwellings, and there is nothing they can do; they cannot take a child to the bathroom or cook. In those cases, the women usually go out to the road to protect the children, and at nighttime they enter the house again to sleep. The witness has six children. To feed them, she leaves her house every day at 4:00 a.m. to work at Estancia Maroma. There she works at various domestic chores. Together with the other women of the Community, they leave the settlement to seek food for the children every day, because they receive no support. In 2003 the State sent food to the Community “almost twice.” The Community has a small school, but the teacher cannot continue teaching the children because they have no food. They also have a shaman among them, who is the father of the witness. The Yakye Axa Community has also suffered due to the death of their relatives. Since they settled alongside the route, two youths have died due to road accidents. When there is an emergency because of an illness, the members of the Community usually act in search of a solution to the ill person’s problem. To take those who are ill to Concepción or Asunción, they have to pay. Once in a while they find people who support them. In 2004, the children were only vaccinated once. The physician who visits the Community does not take the medicine they require. Since the Community settled alongside the route, three children have died due to lack of medical care. The children died from vomiting with diarrhea or with sore throats. Those children were buried alongside the road. When a member of the Community dies, there is no option other than burying their remains in someone else’s pasture, “because they are not from that place.” Her husband walks several hours to be able to hunt animals. When he arrives at the place, he stays and sleeps there. If her husband returns and brings food, the witness, as a woman, rests. At Loma Verde estate, an individual was stationed as the place’s ‘matador’, who walks alongside the wire fence with a shotgun, threatening the children and women, because he is under orders to not allow anyone to enter for firewood or water. The witness is the only one who can “approach the man”, when necessary, to clarify something, for which reason she has also been threatened.