Standing, Segundo Hernández, Josué Gutiérrez, Llacson Fasabi and two officials from the Ombudsman's Office.
The National Organization for Special Justice of Native and Peasant Indigenous Peoples (ONAJEPINC) or "Indigenous Justice", as it is colloquially known, is another organization that spreads false information in various basins of the Loreto region, and campaigns against indigenous peoples in isolation and initial contact (PIACI) and reservations. His links with loggers, coca growers and other illegal actors seem to be undeniable; however, high state officials such as the Ombudsman, endorse their activities and events with their presence, as we will see in this report.
PIACI deniers in action (and with the help of the Ombudsman)
By Iván Brehaut*
October 28, 2024.- Caballococha, capital of the Mariscal Ramón Castilla province, in Loreto, is located 9 hours by boat from the city of Iquitos. It is a small city located in one of the most dynamic coca leaf-producing provinces of Loreto and Peru.
The National Organization for Special Justice of Native Indigenous Peoples and Peasants (ONAJEPINC) operates in this area, which, like the Coordinator for Sustainable Development of Loreto (CDSL), insists on contradicting what the Ministry of Culture, scientists and Indigenous organizations have formally recognized years ago: the existence of a population in isolation.
ONAJEPINC is an organization created in 2015 and since its inception it has maintained an active institutional life, led by its director Segundo Hernández Villoslada. Publications of this organization in which its spokespeople are shown with high officials of the State are easily accessible on social networks and pages of official entities.
Leaders of ONAJEPINC meeting with Rómulo Mucho, Minister of Energy and Mines. The second from the left is Segundo Hernández Villoslada, followed by Walter Estrada de Panchococha.
Testimonies collected in the field, as well as official documents, indicate that members of ONAJEPINC, also known as "Indigenous Justice," have been repeatedly accused of interfering with the work of the State, charging sums of money to community members for services they are not authorized to provide, and of blocking the intervention of the State, particularly the agrarian authorities in the fulfilment of the obligations that the law requires, such as the demarcation of native communities.
The complaints
In Loreto, ONAJEPINC uses as an initial argument a discourse that highlights the shortcomings and weaknesses of the state apparatus, particularly of the Regional Management of Agriculture of Loreto (GERDAGRI) and, on the other hand, incites the communities against their trade union organizations, in this case, the Federation of Tikuna and Yahua Communities of the Lower Amazon (FECOTYBA). the Regional Organization of the Indigenous Peoples of the East (ORPIO) and the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Jungle (AIDESEP).
The version of community members interviewed in the Loretoyacu river basin, in Caballococha, and in the Cushillococha Native Community, point to the disqualifying speech of Llacson Fasabi Sánchez, representative of ONAJEPINC, indicating that both the regional agrarian authority and the indigenous organizations only seek to dispossess the communities of their lands and impose the establishment of indigenous reserves on them with trickery. that is, the specific establishment of the Atacuari Indigenous Reserve.
Indeed, the complaints of community members from the communities of Cushillococha, Edén de la Frontera, El Sol, Santa Teresa, Santa Rita de Gallinazo, Limonero, among others, collected in the field, point to the modus operandi of this organization. In all of them, they are told that GERDAGRI is not going to carry out the actions of titling, demarcation or expansion of communities or that the deadlines it will take them are excessive and that in the process their rights will be violated, cutting their territories.
After that, they offer to advise and conduct the process of titling, demarcation or expansion, in exchange for a "voluntary collaboration". In no case do they provide a receipt, and the collection is made by each family, not by the community in general. In the case of Cushillococha, the collaboration reached a figure of more than 15 thousand soles (around $4,000 dollars), a fact that was publicly rebuked in a meeting attended by GERDAGRI, the Ombudsman's Office, the Prosecutor's Office and other local entities.
In an interview with this newspaper, Llacson Fasabi was asked how they financed the social work that ONAJEPINC claims to carry out. Thus, he acknowledged that the communities provided them with economic support, but that this was voluntary. On the other hand, he again criticized indigenous organizations:
"There are communities that need the support and support of the State, but due to lack of knowledge, and that the State does not reach out with its anthropologists, with its efficient professionals in this instance, we are totally unaware and organizations such as ORPIO, AIDESEP take advantage of this, and they make them see another reality... (...) people here are against the PIACI law, because the PIACI law is a reserve zone and the reserve zones are intangible areas, which later on, the comm