Chile: Mapuche political prisoners on hunger strike
Twenty-three Mapuche indigenous comuneros being held at two prisons in Chile have been on hunger strike since July 11. The prisoners are demanding the dismissal of the cases brought against…
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Chile: Mapuches march
…of Mapuche political prisoners, and for Mapuche unity in the continued struggle for land and self-determination and against violations of indigenous rights by the Chilean and Argentine governments and by…
Chile passes Tibet resolution, Mapuche heartened
…China open direct conversations with the Dalai Lama to find a peaceful solution” to the conflict. It passed 35-8, with one abstention. (MapuchExpress, April 19) The government of President Michele…
Argentina: Mapuche blockade oil fields —again
Argentina’s state firm YPF was at the point of completely shutting down oil and gas production throughout Neuquén province after indigenous Mapuche residents blocked access to to wells for 48 hours to press demands…
Mapuche militants burn machinery at hydro site
Members of Mapuche Ancestral Resistance in the pre-dawn hours of July 19 burned two excavator machines belonging to British business magnate Joe Lewis, that were being used to build a hydroelectric dam at El Bolsón,…
Chile: Mapuche mobilize after racist mob attacks
…in Curacautín, Araucanía region, where a group of Mapuche protesters were holding an occupation of the municipal building. The protest had been called in solidarity with Celestino Córdova, a Mapuche…
Chile: Mapuche youth killed by police in land occupation
Jaime Mendoza Collío, a 24-year-old Mapuche activist, was shot by the police while taking part in an occupation of land claimed as indigenous territory Aug. 12 at Angol in the…
Chile: Mapuche youth seize cathedral
On Oct. 5, a group of seven Mapuche indigenous students from the Frontier University in Temuco, Chile—on hunger strike since Sept. 29—began an occupation of the Temuco cathedral. Another two…
Chile: Mapuche prisoners betrayed
On Sept. 6, Chile’s Senate voted 20-13 with two abstentions against a bill introduced by Socialist senator Alejandro Navarro which would have granted conditional release to jailed Mapuche activists. In…
Chile: Mapuche activist charged under “anti-terrorism” law
On Feb. 14 a court in Temuco in the southern Chilean region of La Araucania formally charged indigenous Mapuche activist Miguel Angel Tapia Huenulef with six counts of possession of…
Chile: Mapuche “terrorism” blamed in deadly forest fires
Following a wave of forest fires in the southern Araucania and Bio-Bio regions that left seven fire-fighters dead this week, Chile’s government suggested indigenous Mapuche activists may have been responsible….
Student protests rock Chile; Mapuche suspend hunger strike
…observe the June 5 strike in solidarity with the students. (El Mostrador, Chile, June 4) Meanwhile, on May 26 four imprisoned Mapuche rights activists decided to end their hunger strike…