Argentina’s Indigenous forest people suffer neglect

The early Spanish settlers wrote about the Tobas saying
they were a fierce people, hardened by an inhospitable terrain.They
killed those who dared stray into what became known as the Bosque
Impenetrable, the Impenetrable Forest.

But there is little sign of that fierceness today in
a community ravaged by years of neglect and exploitation. At the
state-run hospital in the town of Castelli at the entrance to the
forest, tired, wizened Tobas sit on dirty sheets in fly-infested wards,
staring blankly at nothing, waiting to die.

These are the original Argentines, their straight,
dark hair and brown skin in marked contrast to the descendants of
European immigrants who live in the cities.

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