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2. Creole sector, delimited by the Hogar Viejo post, south of Divisadero, including the Sachapera,
Tres Marías, Campo Largo and Amberes up until General Urquiza. This Group shall have the
objective of defining the northern limit that will divide the creole and indigenous sectors of this zone.
3. Creole group of the Barilari line, which has the objective of determining, on the ground and
through a geo-referentiation, the delimitation of the posts.
The PEU is currently serving as a mediator between one creole family and the Chief of the
Community of La Bolsa, in order to close the agreement.
Zone III: It was decided to create a Zone denominated ‘113 thousand hectares’, as the third zone
for agreements between the parties. There is no indigenous claim over this zone. Four Participatory
Workshops were held, identifying the families that inhabit therein, the surface of land they occupy in
accordance with the established criteria, obtaining a free area of approximately 80 thousand
hectares to locate the families that will be moved from other areas claimed by the communities.
Members of the Organization of Creole Families (OFC) requested the PEU to introduce an
exception to the prohibition of tending fences in Fiscal Lots 55 and 14, for this zone of 113
thousand hectares that are free from claims to traditional occupation by the indigenous
communities. It was agreed by consensus that in the 113 thousand hectares zone, fences of no
more than 100 hectares of land may be tended, only for productive purposes (introduction and/or
conservation of pasture, and animal contention). This was endorsed by the Lhaka Honhat
Indigenous Association and is on the record.
Zone IV: The first Participatory Workshop was held in the zone called ‘Santa María’, with the
objective of initiating the Agreements between the Parties.
Three zones have yet to be opened: Alto La Sierra, Rancho El Ñato, and Pueblo de Santa Victoria
Este; this task has been programmed for the present year.
There are currently 20 indigenous communities, their second-level organizations, 186 creole
families and their organizations, which have been duly informed, are in the process of negotiations
and actively participating, covering a working surface of 263 thousand hectares. We shall continue
to work with the same methodology until the entire territory has been covered. It is calculated that
50% of the 462 creole families that comply with the requirements shall be relocated in the areas
that are free from indigenous occupation and claims, most of them in Fiscal Lot 14.”
(iv) The Provincial Government describes the process of preparing the relocation of the creole
families, pointing out that “by virtue of the advances in the agreements between the parties and the
needs of the process of voluntary relocation of creole families who are settled within the Territory of
Traditional Use of the indigenous communities, a budget with the corresponding needs and costs
was submitted to the Provincial Executing Unit by the base organizations –both creole and
indigenous- and their supporting institutions.” The attached budget is signed by: Francisco Perez –
Lhaka Honhat Association; Rogelio Segundo – Lhaka Honhat Association; Domingo Pérez –
Indigenous Community; Arturo Barrozo – Organization of Creole Families; Esmérito Arenas –
Organization of Creole Families; Dante Albornoz – Organization of Creole Families; Saturnino
Ceballos – Real Frontera Board of Neighbours. The PEU also reports that it has started to look for
financing, which “would be destined to carry out the perimetral measurement of both lots, the
measurements of the indigenous territory and the individual ones of the creole families; to public
and land infrastructure works such as roads, electricity, water wells, etc.”.
(v) The Provincial Government further explains that as a consequence of the different meetings
held with the national and provincial authorities in pursuit of financing, and taking into account the
needs of the land regularization process, “the needs were prioritized and the thematic axes were
organized into three stages: 1. Measurements and granting of title to property; 2. Macro-level and
land infrastructure for the Relocations of Creole Families; 3. The elaboration and implementation of
a Comprehensive Development Plan for Lots 55 and 14, which includes both social sectors – the
creole and the indigenous ones.”
(vi) The Provincial Government points out the participation of the Lhaka Honhat Association in this
process:
“Lhaka Honhat, through its representative Francisco Pérez, has expressed that it supports the
process and accompanies the creole organizations in their petitions, as well as the measures that
tend to guarantee the enjoyment of the rights for which they have been fighting for many years, but
he clarifies that the signature of this Agreement does not imply quitting or desisting from the claims
and petitions they have presented to the IACHR, nor to the procedure that is currently underway
before this international body, numbered 12094, initiated to achieve the effective protection of their
indigenous rights, linked to their traditional territories, natural resources and culture, inter alia. The