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Chile: Mapuche resume hunger strike

On May 19, four Mapuche rights activists resumed their open-ended hunger strike at the Hernan Enriquez hospital in Temuco, in southern Chile’s Region IX (Araucania). Mapuche activists Juan Patricio Marileo…

Chile: new escalation in Mapuche country

CounterVortex Two Mapuche killed in clash with security forces Two Mapuche men were killed in a clash with Carabineros and naval troops in Arauco province, Biobío region. Authorities said a…

Chile: Mapuche activist ends fast

…Mapuche prisoners and an end to the military’s presence in Mapuche territories. In an agreement negotiated by Conference of Bishops president Alejandro Goic, Troncoso will be transferred to a prison…

Chile: Mapuche occupy radio station

Indigenous community leaders on Aug. 23 staged a take-over of Santiago-based Radio Bío-Bío to protest the station’s failure to report on the hunger strike of 32 Mapuche activists. The protesters…

Chile: Boric faces Mapuche challenge

…immediate challenge from the mounting armed resistance movement of the Mapuche indigenous people in Chile’s south. Following his electoral victory, the group Lavkenche Mapuche Resistance (RML) issued a statement claiming…

Chile: Mapuche prisoners hospitalized

…20 indigenous Mapuche activists they consider political prisoners; an end to the militarization of the traditional Mapuche territories; and an end to repression. As of Nov. 8 the authorities hadn’t…

Chile: police kill Mapuche elder

…lonko (traditional Mapuche authority), and wounding his sons Juan and Emilio Collihuin. (Argenpress, Sept. 1) Senator Alejandro Navarro, a supporter of Mapuche rights, has filed a legal claim with the…

Chile: Mapuche community attacked

On Dec. 21, police agents from Chile’s militarized Carabineros Special Forces attacked the Mapuche community of Juan Paillalef in Cunco commune in the 9th region (Araucania). The attack came as…

Chile: Mapuche join protest mobilization

CounterVortex Chile: Mapuche take down symbols of colonialism Indigenous Mapuche protesting in Temuco, some 420 miles south of Santiago, last week tore down several statues of Spanish conquistadors and Chilean…