Chile: special forces raid Mapuche community
…Mapuche in Chile. He also presented the Mapuche case in meetings with members of the European Parliament. The Temucuicui community believes that the Oct. 9 raid was the government’s response…
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Chile: Mapuche prisoners start latest hunger strike
…to the use of protected witnesses in Mapuche cases; an end to raids on Mapuche communities; and the release of all political prisoners and the return of indigenous lands to…
Chile: Mapuche student killed in land conflict
…region of Araucania, presumably by police agents. He and other Mapuche activists were setting fire to bales of hay; the estate, which the local Mapuche community claims as part of…
Chile: Mapuche end hunger strike
…PS senator Jaime Naranjo helped broker the agreement, with mediation from Temuco bishop Manuel Camilo Vial and from lonko (Mapuche community leader) Jose Cariqueo. Mapuche activists Juan Patricio Marileo Saravia,…
Chile: Carabineros attack Mapuche children
…Mapuche, Chile’s largest indigenous group. Land disputes are the main source of conflict in the Mapuche regions and have led to police violence against the Temucuicui community in the past….
Chile: hydro projects threaten sacred Mapuche sites
…end to the use of anonymous witnesses in trials against Mapuche activists; and freedom for all Mapuche political prisoners. (Maricheweu International, March 5)From Weekly News Update on the Americas, March 10….
Chile: Mapuche march on Santiago to mark Columbus invasion
…of Chile. The Mapuche are also among the poorest and most marginalized groups in Chilean society; the rural Mapuche population lives in conditions of extreme poverty. (UNPO, Oct. 11) See…
Chile: UN indigenous rights rapporteur fears abuse of Mapuche people
…the police break up Mapuche street protests violently and have raided Mapuche communities without proper authorization. “I’ve received a lot of documentation from NGOs [nongovernmental organizations] that I consider to…
Chile: Mapuche prisoners start new hunger strike
A group of activists for the rights of indigenous Mapuche Chileans interrupted the Easter mass at Santiago’s Metropolitan Cathedral on April 24 to call for the release of four Mapuche…
Chile: 20 arrested at Mapuche prisoner’s hearing
Chilean authorities suspended a hearing for indigenous Mapuche prisoner Fernando Millacheo Marín on Feb. 12 after some 20 of Millacheo’s supporters, including women and children, were detained outside the courthouse…
Chile: Bachelet promises new Mapuche policy
…the Mapuche, the largest of the indigenous groups. The new policy includes the creation of an Indigenous Affairs Ministry; a Council of Indigenous Peoples to develop proposals and oversee negotiations;…
Chile: Mapuche activist continues fast
…an immediate easing of conditions for Mapuche prisoners Jaime Marileo and Juan Millalen and a resolution of the prisoners’ situation by March. Troncoso is a non-Mapuche supporter of the Mapuche…