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Italian landshark rebuffed

  • 14/01/2005

Italian landshark rebuffed Certain things can't be bought; among them is people's right over their ancestral land. This message was slapped on Italian business tycoon Luciano Benneton's face recently when he tried to act benevolent with Mapuche and Tehuelche Indians.

Benneton had recently offered to put 2,500 hectares (ha) of "good quality' land in Argentine Patagonia under the control of Nobel laureate Aldolfo P