On 1 Aug, Santiago Maldonado took part in a demonstration by members of the Mapuche community in Chubut province, Patagonia, over land rights. The Pu Lof in Resistance are engaged in a struggle for an ancestral territory, currently owned by part of the Benetton empire, one of many overseas concerns that bought up big chunks of the far south in the 1980s and 90s. Protests had taken place alongside Route 40, the main north-south artery near the popular tourist destination of El Bolsón, demanding the release of the lonko (community chief) Facundo Jones Huala, jailed over an extradition request from…