Fausta Quattrini

An Italian descendent inherited 5000 hectares of virgin forest in Chaco Paraguaio. He tries to stop deforestation to intensive farming and livestock, while advocating for native Guaraní Nandevas.

In the province of Neuquén, in Argentine Patagonia, workers at the Zanon ceramics factory opposed their employer's layoff plan, which included laying off more than half of their workforce to avoid permanent closure due to the crisis. In October 2001, the workers took over the factory and have since continued production without a boss. They thus demonstrated that it is possible, in times of crisis, to offer work to others and contribute to the continued solidarity of society when the State fails to provide solutions.

The Mapuce are a native people of Patagonia, repository of a very ancient oral culture, for whom the territory is not an "attribute", but a constitutive element of their identity. In this sense, they fight for the Argentine State to respect the National Constitution of 1994 that "guarantees the possession of the lands that [the native peoples of the country] traditionally occupy."