Argentina Indigenous community takes on eviction threat

07 June 2011 Members of an Indigenous community in north-western Argentina battle repeated attempts to forcibly evict them from their homes. The Argentine authorities should not evict Indigenous families from their homes, Amnesty International said today, amid fears that 30 people could lose their homes in a battle over land ownership in the north-west of the country.A judge in San Miguel de Tucumán on 30 May rejected a request by members of the Quilmes Indigenous Community (Comunidad India Quilmes) to overturn an order to remove four families from their homes in the village of Colalao…

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