Chile: two Mapuche hunger strikers are hospitalized
…a show trial set up by prosecutors, police agents and business people to get Mapuche leaders behind bars and stop their struggle to recover Mapuche land. (Adital, Brazil, May 25;…
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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: Mapuche continue drive for land
A group of about 70 indigenous Chilean Mapuche from the José Llancao community peacefully occupied a section of a government research farm in Vilcún commune in Cautín province, in the…
Chile: Mapuche prisoners end hunger strike
…setting fire to ranches and agricultural machinery. The government is also talking about improving roads, schools and health care in the Mapuche region. The Mapuche are Chile’s largest indigenous group,…
Chile: did the Mapuche cause wildfires, or was it climate change?
…indigenous Mapuche activists were responsible for recent major forest fires in the Biobío and Araucanía regions. The complaint was based on an “anti-terrorism” law passed during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of…
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: five more join Mapuche prisoners’ fast
Five prisoners from Chile’s indigeous Mapuche group began a hunger strike on Oct. 1 in the city of Temuco in the southern Araucanía region, joining four Mapuche prisoners who have…
Argentina: Mapuche occupy US-owned gas plant
Talks are underway between the government in Argentina’s Neuquén province and local indigenous Mapuche communities after a protest occupation of a natural gas plant owned by the Houston-based Apache Corporation….
Chile: Mapuches block roads to protest court decision
…and “anti-terrorist” legislation against the Mapuches’ struggles for ancestral lands. Some 100 Mapuche activists and non-Mapuche supporters marched in Santiago the evening of Sept. 20 to demand the release of…
Chile: youth wounded in raid on Mapuche village
…end “the conflict created by the Chilean state by dispossessing the Mapuche communities of their ancestral land.” The Mapuche Territorial Alliance (ATM) demanded the immediate removal of local prosecutor Luis…
Argentina: Mapuche occupy oil wells to protest Chevron
Indigenous Mapuche occupied four oil wells in the Vaca Muerta region in the southwestern Argentine province of Neuquén on July 16 to protest a $1 billion agreement between the state-controlled…
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…