As I was scrolling through news feeds, trying to keep up with some of the chaos unfolding around the world, I stumbled across a flurry of reports from Argentina about raging wildfires tearing through
Patagonia. Starting around January 5, 2026, flames have devastated thousands of hectares in
Chubut province, areas like
El Hoyo,
Puerto Patriada, and near
Epuyén, and prompting evacuations amid thick smoke, destroyed homes, and threatened ecosystems. Thousands of Argentines and other Spanish speakers were flooding the replies on X posts about the blazes, most of them incredibly irate at the Milei government. Phrases like “The Zionists are trying to steal Patagonia!” and “Milei has sold us out to Israel!” popped up repeatedly in viral threads, with users sharing videos of suspicious activity and linking the fires to foreign interests.
I thought, sure, these could be bots amplifying outrage, but Elon’s bot army has always been staunchly
pro-Milei, relentlessly boosting his image as a free-market hero and his tight alliances with Israel. So why were genuine locals, from southern Patagonians to urban commentators, reacting with such raw, widespread fury, accusing their own president of enabling a
Zionist takeover? I jumped down the rabbit hole, cross-checking eyewitness accounts, viral clips, and the mounting public backlash, and what I discovered was yet another stark instance of Zionist imperialism sweeping across the globe, this time setting South America’s pristine frontiers ablaze to pave the way for control and exploitation.
In footage captured by Argentine hiker Martín Morales, one suspect is seen kneeling and igniting dry grass and branches in a high-risk zone amid extreme fire danger conditions, while his companion stands watch. Morales confronts them in Spanish, yelling, “How can you be making a fire, brother?” The men scramble to extinguish the flames with water from a nearby stream, gather their gear, and flee down the trail without a word, leaving Morales to ensure the fire is fully out before alerting park rangers via radio. He later posted a follow-up video explaining his actions: “I was alone, I couldn’t get close—they had bad intentions. I made sure the fire was off and they left. I’m not crying from fear; it’s the impotence, brother.”
Further, local news outlet
Ahora Calafate reports, “According to [Morales], the tourists would be of
Israeli origin, data that has already been provided to the authorities…” This incident, dated around January 6, lines up with the outbreak of multiple blazes that have since merged into a massive inferno, scorching over 17,500 hectares across Chubut province and forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 tourists and residents. Thick smoke has blanketed the region, destroying homes, razing indigenous Mapuche lands, and obliterating ancient ecosystems, with Chile sending cross-border aid as Argentina’s underfunded brigades struggle. At this point I needed a break….
Adding to the sabotage suspicions, reports from Argentine sources, and X posts claim authorities discovered several M26 fragmentation grenades, military hardware used by the U.S. and Israeli forces, scattered near Lake Epuyén. Chubut’s prosecutor confirmed arson via accelerants like gasoline in at least one fire. Governor Ignacio Torres
vowed, “The wretches who started the fire will end up in prison,” amid a manhunt and an offer of a 50 million peso reward for tips.
That got my gears turning. Why would Israelis be igniting fires in this remote, resource-rich corner of the world? Patagonia isn’t just stunning wilderness and puffy coats; it’s packed with vast freshwater reserves and it’s home to some of the planet’s purest glacial water sources, massive aquifers, and rivers that feed into global ecosystems. It’s also full of Elon’s favorites: minerals like lithium, rare earths, copper, zinc, silver, and even uranium deposits in strategic zones. The region’s untapped oil, gas, and land also make it geopolitically vital, a frontier ripe for control in an era of resource wars and climate-driven scarcity.
Digging deeper, I uncovered a pattern that’s impossible to ignore, one that stretches back over a decade across the border in Chile, where similar incidents have plagued Torres del Paine National Park, one of South America’s most iconic protected areas. Back in late
December 2011,
Israeli backpacker and IDF Veteran Rotem Singer, then 23, was arrested on suspicion of starting a massive wildfire in the park by failing to fully extinguish a roll of burning toilet paper (no clue). The blaze raged for days, scorching over 17,000 hectares (more than 42,000 acres) of pristine forest and steppe, devastating ancient lenga trees, wildlife habitats, and forcing evacuations. Singer admitted negligence in a plea deal, paid a fine of about $10,000 to Chile’s forestry service (CONAF), performed voluntary work for park preservation, and was deported. A Chilean Senator
demanded compensation from Israel, which naturally would never come. Singer’s
family and supporters insisted it was an accident, with his grandfather calling the allegations “bizarre” and emphasizing his
military service in a combat unit. But locals and some investigators dismissed the “toilet paper” excuse as implausible given the fire’s scale and rapid spread in dry, windy conditions, calling it “bullshit.”
And it wasn’t isolated! In 2014, four Israeli backpackers were
expelled from Torres del Paine for “violating the area's laws and lighting fire in the park's jurisdiction for the purpose of starting a bonfire.” One of the Israeli travelers' fathers told Ynet, "All they wanted to do was heat up some tuna fish."
Try not to laugh… I know. They faced fines and degrading treatment claims, with some describing interrogations via Google Translate.
Fast-forward to 2017, when
yet another group of Israeli tourists were expelled from Torres del Paine, National Forestry Corp. director Elizabeth Munoz shockingly
revealed, “I have been reviewing the statistics and since 2012 we have had 36 expulsions, of which
23 were Israelites, and these three are also Israelites. It seems they have the culture of not obeying and going against the rules.” Yes, Israelis accounted for nearly
two-thirds of the 36 expulsions from the park!! Some hostels even began
refusing Israeli nationals outright. While no massive fires were directly tied to Israelis in 2017 reports, the pattern of fire violations persisted, often linked to
post-IDF “gap year” travelers flocking to Patagonia for adventure. Bad behavior? Coordinated plan? I don’t know but anyway, back to Argentina….
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The real kicker in Argentina’s nightmare is
Javier Milei, the self-proclaimed
“anarcho-capitalist” who’s turned the country into a Zionist puppet show. Milei, an ardent Zionist backed tooth-and-nail by the U.S. and Israel, didn’t just slash government spending, he gutted the very agencies that could have prevented this catastrophe. Under his
chainsaw austerity, environmental budgets were hacked by up to
84.5% in real terms due to inflation, underexecution, and deliberate policy shifts, crippling wildfire response and forest conservation efforts across the board.
The National Fire Management Service (Servicio Nacional de Manejo del Fuego)? Crippled with real-term cuts of around
81% in 2024 vs. 2023, leaving it woefully under-resourced for prevention, brigades, and aerial support amid rising fire risks from climate change and drought.
The Fund for the Environmental Protection of Native Forests (Fondo para la Protección Ambiental de los Bosques Nativos)? Completely
eliminated in an October 2024 decree (Decree 888/2024), stripping away dedicated financing for conservation, sustainable use, restoration projects, and provincial enforcement against illegal deforestation and fires.
National Parks Administration (Administración de Parques Nacionales)? Sliced by
34% in real terms from 2023 to 2024, leaving just a skeleton crew of about
350-391 firefighters nationwide to cover over 5 million hectares of protected land, a number far below the recommended 700, with requests for reinforcements largely denied. Milei’s “adjustments,” including the dissolution of the
Ministry of Environment into a downgraded subsecretariat and broader state-shrinking measures, have left Argentina defenseless against these blazes, turning a dry summer into an apocalypse while locals and experts decry the policy as a deliberate enabler of environmental vulnerability. Wow you mean “Anarcho-Capitalism” is stupid and doesn’t work? Shocking.
I’ve been talking to Argentines on the ground, friends, contacts, everyday folks, and they’re furious. “Our government’s sold us out,” one told me, describing skies black with ash and families fleeing with nothing. Homes destroyed, livelihoods ruined, and no real help in sight.
Generous Chileans have stepped in with
firefighting crews and resources because Argentina’s too broke and broken to handle it alone. Cross-border cooperation has been a lifeline in past incidents and locals are grateful for the neighborly aid when their own government seems absent. Indigenous
Mapuche communities, already locked in long-standing battles against land grabs, foreign buy-ups, and evictions, are hit hardest, their ancestral territories torched, cultural sites threatened, and displacement amplified. Meanwhile, Milei’s regime and figures like
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich point fingers at them as “
terrorists” or “
self-proclaimed Mapuche terrorist groups” (sounds familiar no?). This scapegoating serves to distract from the real arson suspects, budget cuts that crippled prevention, and broader resource pressures, while human rights groups condemn it as criminalization to clear the way for exploitation.
Milei’s
subservience to Zionists is no secret. He’s been bailed out repeatedly by U.S. and Israeli interests, cozying up to Netanyahu like a lapdog, visiting him in Israel shortly after his 2023 election win and aligning Argentina’s foreign policy against perceived “threats to liberty.” He does all this while
ignoring global outcry over
Gaza. He waves Israeli flags at rallies, moved the embassy to Jerusalem, and even
launched the “Isaac Accords” with a $1 million
Genesis Prize windfall to tie Latin America tighter to Israel, mirroring the
Abraham Accords by fostering tech, security, commerce, and cultural ties starting with Uruguay, Panama, and Costa Rica, while eyeing expansions to Brazil, Colombia, and Chile. Some whisper he’s already
converted to Judaism in secret, studying under Rabbi Shimon Axel Wahnish (Argentina’s ambassador to Israel) and attending Chabad events; others say he’s just playing the game for power, leveraging Zionist support to shore up his regime amid economic collapse. Either way, his administration’s opened the door wide for Israeli influence, from
Mekorot’s predatory water deals stripping local resources to massive land buys by Zionist-linked tycoons like
Eduardo Elsztain and
Joe Lewis.
On the water front is
Mekorot, Israel’s state-owned water giant, notorious for enforcing
water apartheid in Palestine by denying Palestinians access while favoring Israeli settlements, has inked
deals with at least
12 Argentine provinces since 2022 (including Mendoza, San Juan, La Rioja, Catamarca, Rio Negro, Formosa, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Jujuy, Chubut, and Neuquén), providing “technical assistance” for master plans, economic valuation of water, and regulatory frameworks that critics say pave the way for privatization and exploitation. These opaque agreements, often lacking public consultation and transparency on costs (only Río Negro and Catamarca disclosed spending), benefit
mining and agricultural oligarchs while locals face
water scarcity. Under Milei, the push intensified with the 2025 privatization of
AySA (Argentina’s national water utility serving 11 million in Buenos Aires), fueling fears Mekorot will snatch it up, controlling up to
half the nation’s water supply despite Milei’s “libertarian” rhetoric against state involvement (as long as it’s not Argentine).
Protests erupted, with activists branding it “water colonialism” as Mekorot eyes Patagonia’s glaciers and aquifers for export amid global shortages. For some reason, when an outside, private entity controls a country’s water it really gives me the creeps.
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Then there’s
Eduardo Elsztain, the Argentine Zionist tycoon dubbed “South America’s richest Jew,” whose empire was built on a 1990 $10 million
seed from George Soros, and spans IRSA (real estate giant),
Cresud (agribusiness behemoth with cattle ranching tied to deforestation in the Gran Chaco), and massive personal holdings of over
100,000 hectares near San Carlos de Bariloche in Patagonia, plus stakes in Brazilian and U.S. ventures. A devout
Chabad-Lubavitch follower with family in
Israel, Elsztain served as
treasurer of the World Jewish Congress (backed by Zionist heavyweights like Edgar Bronfman and Michael Steinhardt), owns a controlling stake in
Israel’s IDB conglomerate (assets $35 billion, spanning telecom, supermarkets, insurance), and acts as
Milei’s liaison to Orthodox Jewish networks. His land grabs, including
five massive water wells in drought-hit Mendoza
gifted by Milei, have fueled theories of Zionist colonization, with
critics accusing him of turning Patagonia into a resource extraction zone for global elites.
Joe Lewis.
Joe Lewis, the British billionaire with
shadowy ties to currency speculators like Soros (via 1990s deals that wrecked economies), rounds out the cabal. His
Lago Escondido estate not only blocks indigenous and public access but hosts elite retreats for judges, media moguls, and politicians, blurring lines between business and state. The estate functions as a de facto privatized enclave that locals and activists have long branded a
“parallel state” outside Argentine law. Acquired through allegedly irregular purchases starting in the 1990s (via companies like
Hidden Lake S.A.), the land lies within a restricted “Border Security Area” where foreign ownership is prohibited under Argentina’s National Defense Law. Yet Lewis was allowed to fence it off, build a massive mansion, private airport (unmonitored by the state), heliport, power plants, soccer fields, stables, and more, blocking public access to the lake despite over 25 court rulings (since 2005) ordering open roads. What sets Lewis apart is his reported use of aggressive private security, described in multiple
investigative reports as a “private army” or organized gangs to enforce the blockade and repel intruders. While not overtly Zionist in mainstream reports, link him to the broader plot through his Jewish heritage and Patagonian “parallel state,” where he’s entertained Zionists and fueled land-grab fears amid 2025 wildfires blamed on arson to devalue property for cheap buys. These tycoons are more than investors, they’re the
vanguard of a takeover, turning Argentina’s south into a privatized Zionist outpost.
Yeah, I know, this is all pretty shocking, right? It gets spookier. While I was digging deeper into the land grabs in Patagonia and the web of billionaire influence choking the region, I stumbled upon this 6-month-old
Reddit post on r/RepublicaArgentina that stopped me cold. Titled “
Conspiracy theories, or are they seriously occupying Patagonia...”, it was a thread started by a user (u/
Interroga_Omnia) sharing anonymous comments from locals in
El Bolsón.
The post included testimonies that painted a disturbing picture. One person from El Bolsón claimed there have been “
tons of Israelis” in the area for 20 years, many
post-army, buying land and operating a “
big hostel” that functions like a
commune where they coordinate plans. Crucially, they alleged that land gets approved for development after wildfires, because the blazes strip native forest protections, allowing buyers to exploit or resell it. They pointed out that for years the forest law blocked this, but Milei’s mega-decree opened the floodgates. Another local from El Bolsón chimed in. Their grandpa was offered a ridiculously low price for 7 hectares in Los Repollos, turned it down, and just months later a huge fire hit the area, after which the offers decreased significantly.
The thread escalated with more anecdotes, including a video interview of a hostel worker who stumbled on a group of Israeli tourists in the forest with long-range radio comms gear and satellite phones. When spotted, the group panicked, spoke nervously in Hebrew, and quickly hid everything.
The OP wrapped it up pondering, “Maybe the Andinia Plan is a hoax or scrapped ages ago, but perhaps these people saw an opportunity on their own initiative.” Now I was really intrigued. What conspiracy were they talking about? Scrolling through the replies on various posts, one phrase kept popping up over and over, repeated like a mantra:
“Plan Andinia.” People were dropping links to old documents, Herzl quotes, 1970s Argentine military reports, and modern threads tying it all to Milei’s policies, foreign “backpackers,” and the fires. I put two and two together, and down the rabbit hole we go…
The core of this whole mess traces back to
Plan Andinia, a concept that Zionists dismiss outright as a baseless antisemitic conspiracy theory (as usual), yet one that keeps resurfacing with eerie persistence. The point isn’t to prove it’s real or fake in black-and-white terms, it’s that “things are conspiracies until they aren’t.” History is full of schemes denied, downplayed, or called “myths” right up until the evidence piles up and it’s too late, when the land is already bought, the resources locked down, and the map redrawn.
Its historical roots go deep into the
late 19th century, when
Theodor Herzl, the father of modern political Zionism, grappled with where a Jewish homeland could be established amid exploding antisemitism in Europe. In his groundbreaking 1896 pamphlet
Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), Herzl explicitly evaluated Argentina as a serious alternative to Palestine, highlighting its vast open lands, fertile soil, low population density, and immigration-friendly policies under Argentine governments. While Herzl ultimately pivoted to Palestine as the primary focus, the Argentine option wasn’t fringe, it was seriously debated in early Zionist circles as a viable fallback or parallel path.
Map of Jewish colonies in Argentina (circa 1890–1930), est. under Argentine sovereignty.
This discussion translated into real, documented action: Philanthropist
Baron Maurice de Hirsch founded the
Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) in 1891 to fund agricultural settlements for Eastern European Jews fleeing pogroms. The JCA acquired massive tracts of land, eventually reaching over 600,000 hectares in Argentina alone, and established more than 20 colonies, primarily in the fertile
Pampas provinces like Entre Ríos, Santa Fe, Buenos Aires, La Pampa, and Corrientes.
Moisés Ville, 1914: a multi-settlement agricultural colony anchored to regional rail lines.
These were described as humanitarian efforts for refuge, self-sufficiency, and integration into Argentine society, with settlers becoming “
Jewish gauchos” through farming wheat, corn, flax, livestock, and later light industries. At peak in the 1920s, they supported tens of thousands of farmers on about
1.5 million acres across Argentina and Brazil, with strong Zionist cultural elements emerging (debates on Israel, Yiddish theaters, synagogues).
A Jewish “gaucho”, Argentina, 1909 Credit: The Jewish Community in Argentina Collection, Buenos Aires (AMIA)
The modern version of “
Plan Andinia” is a theory that alleges a covert Zionist/Israeli scheme to conquer and declare a
second Jewish state specifically in southern Patagonia (Argentina and Chile), emerged in the 1970s in Argentine far-right circles. In 1971, ultranationalist economist and professor
Walter Beveraggi Allende popularized it through pamphlets and articles in magazines like
Cabildo, claiming Zionists were secretly buying land to
undermine Argentine sovereignty and establish “Andinia” (a mashup of Andes + Patagonia). It gained traction during the 1976–1983 military dictatorship, where Jewish prisoners (including journalist Jacobo Timerman) were allegedly tortured and grilled about
IDF invasion plans for Patagonia. Timerman later mocked the event in his memoir as proof of paranoid fantasy, but is it really? Or is this that signature gaslighting?
75th Anniversary Celebration of Moisesville, 1964
Mainstream historians and academics are suspiciously quick to label
Plan Andinia as antisemitic propaganda with zero evidence of ongoing plots, but I think the evidence is beginning to get quite damning. Old theories refuse to die, and this one resurfaced in the 2010s over Israeli backpackers setting fires in Patagonia, in 2023 media scandals, and now in 2025–2026 amid Milei’s pro-Israel policies, massive land purchases by Zionist-linked figures, and fires that clear protected forests for “development.”
The pattern is undeniable and over-used: deny it as “conspiracy” while acquisitions happen quietly, laws get weakened (like the Fire Management Law changes), and the region shifts hands. When the smoke clears (no pun intended) people ask how it happened right under their noses. This is not about making a “blanket accusation,” it’s about questioning what happens when “conspiracies” align with visible power moves. The questions get louder, and ignoring them doesn’t make them go away, it makes it worse.
Even today, people have tried to bring awareness to Plan Andinia, only to face swift backlash that labels it “
hate speech” while the underlying questions linger. While doing my own digging into things I came across the curious case of the
UK-based Islam Channel, a broadcaster reaching millions in Muslim communities. In February 2021, they aired a one-hour documentary titled
The Andinia Plan, boldly alleging that an active Zionist plot is underway to establish a new Jewish state in Patagonia, spanning Argentina and Chile. The film didn’t hold back, claiming “reliable signs” of the scheme in action: massive land acquisitions by Israeli-linked investors, waves of post-IDF backpackers scouting terrain, and even suspicious companies with Star of David logos popping up in the region. It wove in historical threads from Herzl to present-day deals, framing it as a stealthy land grab disguised as tourism and investment.
But here’s where the denial machine kicks in: By September 2023, UK regulator
Ofcom slapped the channel with a £40,000 fine for “serious and repeated breaches” of broadcasting codes, deeming the doc antisemitic hate speech rooted in neo-Nazi tropes. The ruling blasted it for promoting “harmful stereotypes” without evidence,
forcing an on-air apology from Islam Channel, who chalked it up to a “mistake” by new staff. Critics piled on, with groups like the ADL echoing that it’s recycled propaganda designed to stir division. Yet, in the same breath, the film spotlighted real elements, like those eerie company signs in Patagonia, that locals have photographed and shared for years, raising eyebrows about why such visuals exist if it’s all just myth.
Isn’t this always their playbook? Amplify the theory in alternative media causing a Streisand effect, hit the author with “antisemitic” labels and fines, and watch as the conversation gets shut down while the land buys, fires, and deals keep rolling. Things are “conspiracies” until the proof stares you in the face, and by then, it’s often game over.
Screenshot of article and Google translation.
During my research, I came across this heartbreaking article from a nun—Sister Milagros Juárez, writing in an opinion piece for
Diario Uno on June 18, 2025. It’s raw, almost prophetic in its tone, and it treats Plan Andinia as something that might be unfolding right now under Milei’s watch. She calls it a “reality” that endangers all of South America, warning that a “
new Israel” in Patagonia could turn neighbors into future Irans or Syrias,
zones of imminent war.
She frames Milei as a “
converso al judaísmo” (convert to Judaism), ties the land grabs to cheap sales, direct Tel Aviv flights, and new social security pacts favoring Jewish migrants, while criticizing the timing amid global tensions. It’s a cry from someone who sees the pattern as too real to ignore, calling on readers to
recognize the peril before it’s irreversible.
This opinion piece exploded online, with critics calling it inflammatory and defenders saying it finally voices what locals whisper. Either way, it captures a shift, what was once “conspiracy” is now openly debated in mainstream Argentine media as a geopolitical threat.
And the bombshell visual that went viral alongside it: Benjamin Netanyahu at a 2025 meeting with Milei, intently studying a map centered on southern South America, with Patagonia front and center, right around the time of new bilateral deals and Israel’s strikes on Iran. The photo (released without official explanation) sparked immediate frenzy, with people asking: Coincidence, or signal?
This image captures the moment perfectly with Netanyahu poring over the map while Milei looks on, amid talks of military cooperation, resource access, and migration pacts that let Israelis tap Argentine social benefits. It’s the kind of visual that makes “conspiracy” feel a lot less theoretical.
Much like the current discourse in the United States, this revival isn’t fringe either, it’s in newspapers, viral photos, and heated debates. When a nun writes about it with this emotional urgency, and the president poses with Netanyahu over a Patagonia map, the denial gets harder to maintain. Things are “conspiracies” until they’re not, and once the pieces are in place, it’s often too late to stop what’s coming.
If the historical dots, media revivals, and heartbreaking warnings from voices like Sister Juárez aren’t enough to make you pause, then look at the
tangible signs popping up right on the ground in Patagonia. These kind of “clues” that theorists point to as proof the plan is in motion, hidden in plain sight as legitimate business. We’re talking about companies with names that scream southern expansion and logos brazenly featuring the
Star of David, operating as consulting firms, investment developers, and constructors in a region ripe for resource grabs. Deny it all you want as “coincidence,” but when these outfits align with land buys, water deals, and wildfires that clear the way for development, the “conspiracy” starts looking a lot like strategy.
First up is
Antartica Constructora, whose roadside signs dot the snowy Patagonian landscape. Their logo prominently featuring an interlocking
Star of David. The name alone hints at ambitions extending beyond Patagonia toward the frozen continent’s claims (where Argentina, Chile, and others compete over resources like minerals and ice), but the star symbol ties it directly into Andinia theories. These signs, photographed by locals and shared in threads for years, advertise construction services in a disputed frontier zone where infrastructure often precedes large-scale “development.” Skeptics say it’s just a family-run firm with peculiar symbolism, but theorists see it as a subtle nod to settlement or expansion, especially when fires open up land for new builds.
Then there’s
Antartica Sur S.A.S., with a logo that integrates the Star of David over stylized buildings, homes, and a sweeping curve, evoking real estate, housing projects, or urban development in the “southern Antarctic” sphere. The name screams geographic ambition, positioning the company for construction booms in Patagonia (and potentially beyond) amid resource plays like mining, glamping, or private enclaves.
These aren’t household names or multinational giants; they’re niche players whose aesthetics and operations fuel the narrative of quiet colonization through “investment.” Whether intentional fronts or just edgy branding, their visibility in Patagonia amid escalating fires, budget cuts, and Zionist-linked influence makes the questions impossible to ignore. These images aren’t hidden in obscure corners; they’re out in the open, photographed by passersby and shared in debates. The symbolism stares back: Why these designs, here, now? Deny it, dismiss it, but the ground keeps shifting.
The flames in Patagonia aren’t just burning forests, they’re illuminating a bigger picture that’s been unfolding for over a century, one that people have called “conspiracy” for so long it’s become a reflex to dismiss. But when you line up the pieces, including Herzl’s open consideration of Argentina as a homeland fallback, the real Jewish colonization efforts that followed, the 1970s explosion of the Andinia narrative in far-right circles, the persistent pattern of Israeli-linked land acquisitions, the suspicious wildfires that clear protected land just as laws get gutted to allow redevelopment, the tycoons carving out private fiefdoms with private armies, the water deals handing rivers to Mekorot, the roadside signs and logos staring back with Stars of David in a disputed frontier, the Netanyahu-Milei map photo, and now a nun writing in a national paper that the “myth” looks a lot like reality…..it’s hard to keep calling it coincidence.
Milei’s regime, much like his mentor Trump’s, is accelerationist. Milei has slammed on the gas pedal: slashing fire management budgets to the bone, repealing the 30–60 year post-fire land-use bans, dissolving environmental funds, cozying up to Netanyahu, launching the Isaac Accords, and opening the door for migration pacts that let Jews “homologate” social benefits in Argentina. Meanwhile, the people on the ground, Mapuche families losing ancestral territories, Chubut locals fleeing ash-choked towns, Argentines watching their south get bought up cheap, pay the price with homes destroyed, livelihoods torched, and sovereignty eroded.
The pattern is the same as it ever was: deny, downplay, label it “antisemitic conspiracy” until the land is fenced, the water diverted, the forests gone, and the new infrastructure is in place. Then it’s no longer theory, but fact on the ground, and reversing it becomes nearly impossible. We’ve seen this movie before, when it was called
Palestine. Schemes dismissed as paranoia while the groundwork is laid in silence, only for the curtain to rise when the stage is already set.
Patagonia is not just wilderness or puffy-coat tourism, it is one of the last great freshwater reserves on Earth, a mineral-rich frontier, a strategic southern edge. If we wait for official admission or a smoking gun, it will be too late. The fires are the warning siren. The signs are already hammered in. The question is no longer “Is it happening?” it’s “How much further will it go, and what are we going to do about it?”
Argentina’s south is burning. The time to look away is over.
