“It was painful to see him,” a Spanish legislator said about the imprisoned activist, who had been on hunger strike for 74 days. “Mr. Héctor Llaitul could die at any moment.”
The Chilean government prepared to step up repression against Mapuche activists after an elderly couple died in a fire set at their estate by some 20 masked men.
Eight former military officers face trial for their alleged participation in the murder of renowned musician Víctor Jara in 1973; four of them are School of the Americas graduates.
The International Court of Justice at The Hague opened hearings regarding the longtime maritime border dispute between Chile and Peru.
Barrick Gold Corporation had to suspend some operations at its troubled Pascua Lama mine after inspectors found unsafe levels of fine particles in the air.
Chile’s Supreme Court approved a request for the extradition of a former US Navy captain to stand trial for his involvement in the murders of two US citizens in 1973.
The Supreme Court quashed the convictions of two Mapuche prisoners for attempted homicide of police agents; the prisoners had protested their convictions with a 60-day fast.
Thousands marched in Santiago to demand respect for the rights of Chile’s indigenous peoples, while nine Mapuche prisoners maintained a hunger strike.
Five Mapuche prisoners began a hunger strike on Oct. 1 in Temuco, joining four Mapuche prisoners who have been on hunger strike in Angol since Aug. 27.
Huilliche activists blocked a highway, burning rubbish and setting up barricades to protest a Supreme Court decision denying them access to a sacred site.
Santiago exploded into a night of street fighting that left one officer of the Carabineros dead after a court ruled that President Salvador Allende committed suicide during the 1973 coup.
Seven Mapuche activists went on hunger strike to protest what they consider the Chilean government’s repression of struggles by the indigenous group to regain ancestral lands.
