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Chile: activists fast for Mapuche hunger strikers

A group of 12 Chilean activists began an open-ended “massive solidarity fast” on Sept. 14 to support indigenous Mapuche prisoners who have been carrying out a liquids-only hunger strike since…

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: Supreme Court annuls Mapuche convictions

By a unanimous vote, on Oct. 24 Chile’s Supreme Court of Justice overturned the convictions of two young Mapuche prisoners for the attempted homicide of Gen. Iván Besmalinovic, a commander…

Chile: Mapuche hunger striker reported near death

…find a political solution that could end a hunger strike the prisoners started on Nov. 14. The prisoners–Héctor Llaitul Carillanca, the leader of the militant Mapuche organization Arauco Malleco Coordinating…

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 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: 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 editor imprisoned

Another escalation is reported in the persecution of the Mapuche indigenous people of Chile: the imprisonment of the editor of a Mapuche magazine on six-year-old charges related to a land…

Chile: carabinero shot after raid on Mapuche village

…the companies are invading Mapuche ancestral lands. With about one million members, the Mapuche are Chile’s largest indigenous group; according to José Aylwin, co-director of the Temuco office of the…

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…

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…