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…
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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….
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…
Argentina: Mapuche block oil facility after fires
Some 200 indigenous Mapuche blocked the entrance to a facility of Argentina’s state-controlled Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (YPF) oil company on Aug. 31 in the Vaca Muerta region in the southwestern province of…
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 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…
FLASHPOINT IN THE FLATHEAD
…WW4 REPORT, Oct. 18, 2007 /node/4577 Global warming opens Northwest Passage WW4 REPORT, Sept. 16, 2007 /node/4431 NAFTA security summit held in Ottawa WW4 REPORT, Feb. 25, 2007 /node/3230 Canada…
SUFISM AND THE STRUGGLE WITHIN ISLAM
…2005 /node/1122 “Ashura violence in Pakistan, Afghanistan,” Feb. 10, 2006 /node/1573 “Iraq: Samarra’s al-Askari dome destroyed,” Feb. 22, 2006 /node/1642 “Iraq: another Shi’ite shirne bombed,” Feb. 27, 2006 /node/1655 “Iran:…
Chile: police attack Mapuche community after clash at timber camp
…1. Owner of the predio, or land-holding, Juan de Dios Fuentes, said some 50 local Mapuche comuneros entered the property, cutting trees and tearing down fences, and fired on the…
Chile: Mapuche leader arrested
Jorge Huenchullan, a Mapuche leader detained Feb. 17 in a violent police operation in Temucuicui, Chile, was transfered to Algol prison after a court in Collipulli declared him a fugitive…
UN expert urges Chile to stop using anti-terror law
The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism on July 29 urged Chilean authorities to refrain from applying anti-terrorism legislation that directly impacts the Mapuche indigenous people. Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson…