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Statement by Mapuche Political Prisoners Convicted in CAM-Lautaro Case
PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE FROM THE MAPUCHE CAM POLITICAL PRISONERS – LAUTARO CASE
Kiñe: First of all, thank all the people who accompanied us in this oral trial process in which, finally, we were wrongly convicted. To the different Mapuche communities, families and homes, to our people, all our gratitude goes.
Epu: We understand this sentence as the result of political persecution against the autonomist Mapuche movement, specifically against the CAM, an organization of which weichafe are proud. We show how this process was carried out in a biased and racist manner, which did not have any evidence that linked us, as well as the use of secret witnesses who, in the end, did not even testify in court.
Kvla: That, the Winka court convicted us for the crimes of repeated arson, theft, simple kidnapping and in two particular cases for carrying ammunition. Reclassifying two crimes and acquitting them of the crimes of carrying prohibited weapons, carrying conventional weapons and unjustified shooting.
Meli: We understand that the court, given the poor investigation by the prosecution and the solid arguments of our defenses, decided to make an ACCOMMODATION that would allow political condemnation at any cost against us, without in any case having the minimum elements to do so.
Kechu: With our heads held high we declare that we will not accept this disastrous condemnation and that, if the Chilean State persists in criminalizing and persecuting the historic and dignified Mapuche struggle, wanting to condemn us for it, that it at least take charge of the Rule of Law that they so proclaim, that it obtain the evidence and condemn under its laws, not based on tricks, falsehoods, political pressures and the use of the bourgeois press subservient to business interests.
Likewise, we call on the judiciary to stop being the punitive arm of fascism and the ultra-right in Wallmapu.
Kayu: Because of all of the above, on the day of the sentencing, we will begin a mobilization to denounce this flawed judicial process of which they made us a part. In this instance we also want to support our peñi Daniel Canio, who after having served more than half of his sentence is still being denied his prison benefits.
Having faced this process as pu weichafe, today convicted, we consider it necessary to address the Mapuche movement and our people in general after almost 4 years in prison and declare that we are not defeated, much less ashamed or regretful of embracing such a dignified and just struggle as ours, quite the contrary, we continue to advance with the determination of never kneeling before our enemies.
Finally, we call to continue in the weichan, to remain in the territorial dispute against the forestry companies and big business, to continue resisting the structural and colonialist racism of the Chilean State, even more so today where fascism and the Zionist extreme right govern.
Out with the foresters and soldiers of the wallmapu!!
The Mapuche resistance is not terrorism!!
Peñi Kincha treka rupaymi tüfachi Mapu Mew,welu Tami pülli rumel mongeleay rangi weychan Mew
Luis Menares Chanilao
Jorgue Caniupil Coña
Pelantaro Llaitul Pezoa
Juan Carlos Mardones
PPM-CAM
Werken News /Resumen Latinoamericano, June 30, 2026
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=34697 #CAM #chile #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica #Wallmapu -
Statement by Mapuche Political Prisoners Convicted in CAM-Lautaro Case
PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE FROM THE MAPUCHE CAM POLITICAL PRISONERS – LAUTARO CASE
Kiñe: First of all, thank all the people who accompanied us in this oral trial process in which, finally, we were wrongly convicted. To the different Mapuche communities, families and homes, to our people, all our gratitude goes.
Epu: We understand this sentence as the result of political persecution against the autonomist Mapuche movement, specifically against the CAM, an organization of which weichafe are proud. We show how this process was carried out in a biased and racist manner, which did not have any evidence that linked us, as well as the use of secret witnesses who, in the end, did not even testify in court.
Kvla: That, the Winka court convicted us for the crimes of repeated arson, theft, simple kidnapping and in two particular cases for carrying ammunition. Reclassifying two crimes and acquitting them of the crimes of carrying prohibited weapons, carrying conventional weapons and unjustified shooting.
Meli: We understand that the court, given the poor investigation by the prosecution and the solid arguments of our defenses, decided to make an ACCOMMODATION that would allow political condemnation at any cost against us, without in any case having the minimum elements to do so.
Kechu: With our heads held high we declare that we will not accept this disastrous condemnation and that, if the Chilean State persists in criminalizing and persecuting the historic and dignified Mapuche struggle, wanting to condemn us for it, that it at least take charge of the Rule of Law that they so proclaim, that it obtain the evidence and condemn under its laws, not based on tricks, falsehoods, political pressures and the use of the bourgeois press subservient to business interests.
Likewise, we call on the judiciary to stop being the punitive arm of fascism and the ultra-right in Wallmapu.
Kayu: Because of all of the above, on the day of the sentencing, we will begin a mobilization to denounce this flawed judicial process of which they made us a part. In this instance we also want to support our peñi Daniel Canio, who after having served more than half of his sentence is still being denied his prison benefits.
Having faced this process as pu weichafe, today convicted, we consider it necessary to address the Mapuche movement and our people in general after almost 4 years in prison and declare that we are not defeated, much less ashamed or regretful of embracing such a dignified and just struggle as ours, quite the contrary, we continue to advance with the determination of never kneeling before our enemies.
Finally, we call to continue in the weichan, to remain in the territorial dispute against the forestry companies and big business, to continue resisting the structural and colonialist racism of the Chilean State, even more so today where fascism and the Zionist extreme right govern.
Out with the foresters and soldiers of the wallmapu!!
The Mapuche resistance is not terrorism!!
Peñi Kincha treka rupaymi tüfachi Mapu Mew,welu Tami pülli rumel mongeleay rangi weychan Mew
Luis Menares Chanilao
Jorgue Caniupil Coña
Pelantaro Llaitul Pezoa
Juan Carlos Mardones
PPM-CAM
Werken News /Resumen Latinoamericano, June 30, 2026
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=34697 #CAM #chile #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica #Wallmapu -
Mapuche Nation: Prisoners Declare a Hunger Strike in Support of Lonko Facundo Jones Huala
As a gesture of solidarity and firm support, the comrades of Lonko Francisco Facundo Jones Huala, housed in Pavilion 5 of Unit 6 in Rawson, have declared a hunger strike. They are protesting for the Lonko’s health, the unsanitary conditions of the infirmary where he has been hospitalized since yesterday, and the worsening prison conditions.
This means they are refusing the food provided by the Federal Penitentiary Service, in clear support of the Lonko (Mapuche leader) and as a protest demanding he receive immediate medical attention appropriate to his health condition, given the severity of his illness after more than 56 days of hunger strike and 6 days of dry fasting.
We denounce the fact that the Lonko, since being transferred yesterday in a state of decompensation to Santa Teresita Hospital, where he was given IV fluids and underwent tests, was returned that same afternoon and admitted to the prison’s infirmary. He was held incommunicado until this afternoon when he was discharged and taken back to his cellblock, only then able to contact his family. He has lost a significant amount of weight; after 56 days of hunger strike, he weighed 63 kilos yesterday, and a heart problem was detected as a result of the hunger strike, suggesting he may have suffered a heart attack.
The lives and well-being of many people deprived of their liberty matter. This extreme measure demonstrates the lack of political response to the demands made and the deteriorating health of Lonko Facundo Jones Huala.
We hold the prison and judicial authorities responsible for any irreversible consequences to the health and life of the Lonko and his comrades on hunger strike.
And although the risk is even greater, as a support network, we want to make this collective action visible in solidarity, mobilizing more people around the many injustices committed against the Lonko.
Freedom for Lonko Facundo Jones Huala Now!
Red Apoyo Comunidades Mapuche Tehuelche
Resumen Latinoamericano, June 25, 2026
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=34412 #argentina #FacundoJonesHuala #hungerStrike #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #southAmerica -
Mapuche Nation: Prisoners Declare a Hunger Strike in Support of Lonko Facundo Jones Huala
As a gesture of solidarity and firm support, the comrades of Lonko Francisco Facundo Jones Huala, housed in Pavilion 5 of Unit 6 in Rawson, have declared a hunger strike. They are protesting for the Lonko’s health, the unsanitary conditions of the infirmary where he has been hospitalized since yesterday, and the worsening prison conditions.
This means they are refusing the food provided by the Federal Penitentiary Service, in clear support of the Lonko (Mapuche leader) and as a protest demanding he receive immediate medical attention appropriate to his health condition, given the severity of his illness after more than 56 days of hunger strike and 6 days of dry fasting.
We denounce the fact that the Lonko, since being transferred yesterday in a state of decompensation to Santa Teresita Hospital, where he was given IV fluids and underwent tests, was returned that same afternoon and admitted to the prison’s infirmary. He was held incommunicado until this afternoon when he was discharged and taken back to his cellblock, only then able to contact his family. He has lost a significant amount of weight; after 56 days of hunger strike, he weighed 63 kilos yesterday, and a heart problem was detected as a result of the hunger strike, suggesting he may have suffered a heart attack.
The lives and well-being of many people deprived of their liberty matter. This extreme measure demonstrates the lack of political response to the demands made and the deteriorating health of Lonko Facundo Jones Huala.
We hold the prison and judicial authorities responsible for any irreversible consequences to the health and life of the Lonko and his comrades on hunger strike.
And although the risk is even greater, as a support network, we want to make this collective action visible in solidarity, mobilizing more people around the many injustices committed against the Lonko.
Freedom for Lonko Facundo Jones Huala Now!
Red Apoyo Comunidades Mapuche Tehuelche
Resumen Latinoamericano, June 25, 2026
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=34412 #argentina #FacundoJonesHuala #hungerStrike #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #southAmerica -
Héctor Llaitul: Brief Balance of the Fascist Offensive
In our analysis, the first thing we can affirm is that the previous Chilean government, of a “progressive” nature, has been responsible for opening the doors to the extreme right. This phenomenon has been a constant in different countries where fascism has been reinstated in recent times. Situation that contributes to confusing people. The “pseudo-progressives” present themselves by pretending to be what they are not, which ends up being misleading. Disoriented and deceived, people end up voting almost as punishment for an option that harms them in the long run. The responsibility for the vacuum used by “progressivism” is the same as that of the traditional left, which has not only been defeated, but is assumed as such, losing lines and principles.
If we stop at the behavior of progressives in the different countries that have managed to come to power, they end up administering the neoliberal model. This can be observed, for example, in Spain after the end of Franco’s dictatorship. The figure of Felipe González, an example for transitional Chile and who seemed to support a radical discourse, very soon ended up managing the model with privatizations and anti-popular measures. In Chile, the Boric Government immediately showed its true liberal essence, which brought with it disastrous consequences for the Mapuche people. It was with less concealment than the González school. Similar experiences were lived in neighboring countries, in Brazil with Lula, Ecuador with Correa, Morales in Bolivia and with the Kischners in Argentina, where the reactionary right just waited their turn.
Without a doubt, the Latin American extreme right turned out to be the most protected and subordinated to the American machinery, subjected and functional to the Yankee multinational corporations. In recent times, North American policy has not forgiven and its domination even occurs in a warlike logic: the case of Venezuela and Cuba. Perhaps for the same reason we can understand why the progressives in Chile were so fierce and cruel to persecute and repress the Mapuche and all other expressions of resistance, fully submitting to the prevailing post-dictatorship system and creating the conditions for a new neo-fascist and neo-colonial offensive. Now, with a far-right government and with many Pinochet supporters in power, the progressives have only limited themselves to negotiating, using the same Constitution that they were supposed to want to change, manipulating the social and political movement. Movement that will certainly protest again while they have to wait quietly for another 4 years attached to the institutional path. Because they only want positions and end up accepting compromises from those in power.
In this context, it should not be forgotten that Boric and the parties of his alliance left a much more repressive and modernized institutional framework of an openly anti-Mapuche nature, as was not known (Naim Retamal Law, Antitomas Law, Permanent Militarization, Anti-Terrorist Law, etc.). Regulations that extend to the social reality of the oppressed in general. They left everything ready, today the fascists only have to administer and apply the inherited measures.
To better understand the change of government within the framework of interbourgeois power, it is important to review the rearrangement of big capital in the Mapuche ancestral territory. Our analysis in this regard is that today, as an oppressed people, we must continue fighting mainly against the capitalist system. Along these lines, the enemy of the Mapuche cause are all capitalist investments in Wallmapu, primarily forestry investments because they support the largest property system usurped against the communities, especially those that once had a project to rearticulate lof and broader territorial spaces for the true composition of the Mapuche Nation People. The fight is mainly against them because of the serious effects that monocultures represent for our ñuke mapu and for the ecosystem in general.
Along with the fight against forestry companies, there is also a fight against different capitalist investment projects that attack communities, an occupation based on dispossession and mechanisms of economic control of the territory, an occupation by “accumulation by dispossession.” We are talking about megaprojects of all kinds that invade and prey on our ancestral territories, read hydroelectric plants, wind projects, real estate, mining, roads, etc., where large corporations, big capital, appropriate assets, lands and rights of communities to generate profits.
Likewise, the so-called “clean energy projects” are a chimera, given that they are installed in usurped spaces. We have already maintained that the last administrations have openly committed to maintaining the system of dispossession at any cost. A reality that only favors large economic groups, and although they include proposals under more “friendly” silvo-agricultural models, they share an extractivist sense that also affects and denigrates Mapuche culture. Not only due to the transformation of the territory at the service of capitalism but also due to the imposition of a pro-capitalist, Western colonial logic that greatly impacts the Mapuche social, political, ideological and cultural fabric.
Faced with this framework, we must sustain our proposal of struggle based on the resistance and reconstruction of our nation people against all expressions of globalized capitalism. Our main definitions are to confront global imperialism and the local colonialist dispossession that we suffer from the oligarchy and the bourgeois state. In this sense, we must reaffirm that we will maintain an autonomist and revolutionary Mapuche movement, with clearly anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist definitions. Bases to build a great process of Mapuche National liberation.
Amulepe taiñ weichan!!
Freedom to all Mapuche political prisoners!!SOURCE: Vocesenlucha
by Héctor Héctor Llaitul Carrillanca /Resumen Latinoamericano, June 16, 2026
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=34069 #capitalism #chile #HéctorLlaitul #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #southAmerica #Wallmapu -
Héctor Llaitul: Brief Balance of the Fascist Offensive
In our analysis, the first thing we can affirm is that the previous Chilean government, of a “progressive” nature, has been responsible for opening the doors to the extreme right. This phenomenon has been a constant in different countries where fascism has been reinstated in recent times. Situation that contributes to confusing people. The “pseudo-progressives” present themselves by pretending to be what they are not, which ends up being misleading. Disoriented and deceived, people end up voting almost as punishment for an option that harms them in the long run. The responsibility for the vacuum used by “progressivism” is the same as that of the traditional left, which has not only been defeated, but is assumed as such, losing lines and principles.
If we stop at the behavior of progressives in the different countries that have managed to come to power, they end up administering the neoliberal model. This can be observed, for example, in Spain after the end of Franco’s dictatorship. The figure of Felipe González, an example for transitional Chile and who seemed to support a radical discourse, very soon ended up managing the model with privatizations and anti-popular measures. In Chile, the Boric Government immediately showed its true liberal essence, which brought with it disastrous consequences for the Mapuche people. It was with less concealment than the González school. Similar experiences were lived in neighboring countries, in Brazil with Lula, Ecuador with Correa, Morales in Bolivia and with the Kischners in Argentina, where the reactionary right just waited their turn.
Without a doubt, the Latin American extreme right turned out to be the most protected and subordinated to the American machinery, subjected and functional to the Yankee multinational corporations. In recent times, North American policy has not forgiven and its domination even occurs in a warlike logic: the case of Venezuela and Cuba. Perhaps for the same reason we can understand why the progressives in Chile were so fierce and cruel to persecute and repress the Mapuche and all other expressions of resistance, fully submitting to the prevailing post-dictatorship system and creating the conditions for a new neo-fascist and neo-colonial offensive. Now, with a far-right government and with many Pinochet supporters in power, the progressives have only limited themselves to negotiating, using the same Constitution that they were supposed to want to change, manipulating the social and political movement. Movement that will certainly protest again while they have to wait quietly for another 4 years attached to the institutional path. Because they only want positions and end up accepting compromises from those in power.
In this context, it should not be forgotten that Boric and the parties of his alliance left a much more repressive and modernized institutional framework of an openly anti-Mapuche nature, as was not known (Naim Retamal Law, Antitomas Law, Permanent Militarization, Anti-Terrorist Law, etc.). Regulations that extend to the social reality of the oppressed in general. They left everything ready, today the fascists only have to administer and apply the inherited measures.
To better understand the change of government within the framework of interbourgeois power, it is important to review the rearrangement of big capital in the Mapuche ancestral territory. Our analysis in this regard is that today, as an oppressed people, we must continue fighting mainly against the capitalist system. Along these lines, the enemy of the Mapuche cause are all capitalist investments in Wallmapu, primarily forestry investments because they support the largest property system usurped against the communities, especially those that once had a project to rearticulate lof and broader territorial spaces for the true composition of the Mapuche Nation People. The fight is mainly against them because of the serious effects that monocultures represent for our ñuke mapu and for the ecosystem in general.
Along with the fight against forestry companies, there is also a fight against different capitalist investment projects that attack communities, an occupation based on dispossession and mechanisms of economic control of the territory, an occupation by “accumulation by dispossession.” We are talking about megaprojects of all kinds that invade and prey on our ancestral territories, read hydroelectric plants, wind projects, real estate, mining, roads, etc., where large corporations, big capital, appropriate assets, lands and rights of communities to generate profits.
Likewise, the so-called “clean energy projects” are a chimera, given that they are installed in usurped spaces. We have already maintained that the last administrations have openly committed to maintaining the system of dispossession at any cost. A reality that only favors large economic groups, and although they include proposals under more “friendly” silvo-agricultural models, they share an extractivist sense that also affects and denigrates Mapuche culture. Not only due to the transformation of the territory at the service of capitalism but also due to the imposition of a pro-capitalist, Western colonial logic that greatly impacts the Mapuche social, political, ideological and cultural fabric.
Faced with this framework, we must sustain our proposal of struggle based on the resistance and reconstruction of our nation people against all expressions of globalized capitalism. Our main definitions are to confront global imperialism and the local colonialist dispossession that we suffer from the oligarchy and the bourgeois state. In this sense, we must reaffirm that we will maintain an autonomist and revolutionary Mapuche movement, with clearly anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist definitions. Bases to build a great process of Mapuche National liberation.
Amulepe taiñ weichan!!
Freedom to all Mapuche political prisoners!!SOURCE: Vocesenlucha
by Héctor Héctor Llaitul Carrillanca /Resumen Latinoamericano, June 16, 2026
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=34069 #capitalism #chile #HéctorLlaitul #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #southAmerica #Wallmapu -
Argentina: Mapuche Leader Facundo Jones Huala Transferred After Nearly 40 Days of Hunger Strike
Argentine federal authorities have ordered the transfer of Facundo Jones Huala, a Mapuche leader and prominent figure in the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM), to Esquel prison, where he will remain in pretrial detention as part of an investigation for aggravated illegal association. Imprisoned since June 2025, he had been on a hunger strike for nearly 40 days to demand a transfer to a facility closer to his territory and community. His health having deteriorated significantly, he was hospitalized in Rawson under police guard. The transfer to Esquel will take place as soon as doctors deem his health compatible with travel.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=33727 #argentina #FacundoJonesHuala #hungerStrike #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #southAmerica -
Argentina: Mapuche Leader Facundo Jones Huala Transferred After Nearly 40 Days of Hunger Strike
Argentine federal authorities have ordered the transfer of Facundo Jones Huala, a Mapuche leader and prominent figure in the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM), to Esquel prison, where he will remain in pretrial detention as part of an investigation for aggravated illegal association. Imprisoned since June 2025, he had been on a hunger strike for nearly 40 days to demand a transfer to a facility closer to his territory and community. His health having deteriorated significantly, he was hospitalized in Rawson under police guard. The transfer to Esquel will take place as soon as doctors deem his health compatible with travel.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=33727 #argentina #FacundoJonesHuala #hungerStrike #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #southAmerica -
Retaliation Against Mapuche Political Prisoner Lonko Facundo Jones Huala for Hunger Strike
Public Complaint – April 28, 2026
Yesterday, Lonko Francisco Facundo Jones Huala began a liquid hunger strike after 11 months of preventive detention without formal accusation or sentence in Unit 6 of Rawson, Chubut. During yesterday morning he filed a written complaint addressed to the Federal Court of Bariloche, to the Head of Unit, to the Executive Branch and to whomever it may concern, for the serious prison conditions in which he is found and the constant violation of his rights as a member of an indigenous people; writing where, in addition, he specified the demands for which he is mobilized. However, the management of the maximum security prison where he is located, in the city of Rawson, did not send the text of the complaint to the court (as it should have done). Today, the Bariloche court confirmed to its lawyers from the Lawyers’ Guild that the prison did not send the letter.
At the same time, starting yesterday, when the hunger strike began, the Rawson Prison staff (shift chief and requisition staff) exercised mistreatment and discrimination when they announced the strike. So today they did not allow him to go to school, arguing that because there is a strike he could not attend. However, they forced him to go out into the yard. This is yet another violation of his rights.
We denounce this situation because it is serious, it is no coincidence that the note exposing the prison conditions just disappeared, even from a legal point of view because the document did not even reach the defense lawyers.
Below we transcribe the note issued by Lonko Facundo Jones Huala. Enough political persecution. For Lonko, his freedom now and/or transfer to Esquel.
4/27/2026
To the Federal Court of Bariloche, to the head of the Unit, to the Executive Branch, to whomever it may concern, their office.
With the greatest consideration, I address you in my capacity as a Mapuche political prisoner, in order to inform that I have once again begun a Liquid Hunger Strike, of an indefinite nature, with the possibility of converting it into a Dry Strike.
As Lonko, traditional authority of my Lof, community, ensuring respect for my political and cultural rights means doing so for all my people. I not only come to denounce political imprisonment, but also, and therefore, the worsening of detention conditions. First, because of the distance from my family and community, and then, because in this unit there are no prison conditions for anyone, least of all political prisoners of the Mapuche culture.
To the ignorance of the federal prison service and society, it must be added that, according to the changes in personnel and leadership, the protocols with respect to my culture change. From the beginning, lawen’s entry was not respected in a complete and correct way, but also, having brought partial solutions, these are unknown today. The exit to the realization of my llellipun is altered according to the procedures or requisition shifts, being corrected only when there are managers with good will.
In everyday life there is no going out to the patio, it is mandatory only once a week when they want, even in the rain and due to search procedures, where they repeatedly break belongings or steal. These patios do not have access to bathrooms and we must walk through urine and human excrement.
The conditions of the pavilion are worsening instead of improving, being more internal, the freezer is smaller, due to the failures of the electrical system that burned the previous one due to leaks in the cables. Winter is coming and the people in charge who broke the heater haven’t fixed it. Floods are daily, like water cuts, just as a detail of daily life. As far as my culture is concerned, very little is respected. I cannot wear my clothing, nor carry out my practices except when the service allows it, but aggravated by the distance, it becomes practically impossible to carry out, for example, the wetripantu, Mapuche New Year, even if it is authorized. They are breaking my family and community ties, attacking my culture and spirituality. I do not have access not only to Lawen, but also to Mapuche food, and not only am I not convicted or even prosecuted, even with ten conduct. Held in a maximum security prison just for seeking dignity and justice for my people.
We have and demand the right to our territory, language, culture, medicine, spirituality, organization, justice.
Before the ships arrived, we were already here, we still are and we will be here in the future. We already know your corrupt world, but you do not know ours, there are still possibilities to build in harmony and remedy the dispossession.
Ngechen müley tañi mogen
These are my demands:
-Decent prison conditions.
-Fair trial, due process.
-Transfer to the U14 of Esquel due to family proximity and to my lof.
-Application of ILO Convention 169, measures other than imprisonment.
-Cessation of political persecution and prosecution of all Mapuche fighters.
-Return of ancestral territory to the lofs in conflict.
-Political, non-judicial or repressive solution to the historical conflict.
-Application of article 75, paragraphs 17 and 22 of the National Constitution.
-Intervention of human rights organizations and international mediators for an appropriate political solution.
-Remove all Lof and Mapuche organizations from the list of terrorist organizations.
-According cultural protocols in the penitentiary system and every institution that they force us to transit.
-Cessation and withdrawal of mining, oil, transnational companies and landowners from Wallmapu.
-Freedom for all Mapuche political prisoners.
Without further ado, waiting for a prompt and favorable resolution. Greetings sincerely.
Francisco Facundo Jones Huala, Mapuche political prisoner.
DNI: 32,320,648
Lonko Curramapu, Cushamen. Pavilion 5. Rawson Headquarters.
Resumen Latinoamericano, April 29, 2026
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=32057 #FacundoJonesHuala #hungerStrike #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica #Wallmapu -
Retaliation Against Mapuche Political Prisoner Lonko Facundo Jones Huala for Hunger Strike
Public Complaint – April 28, 2026
Yesterday, Lonko Francisco Facundo Jones Huala began a liquid hunger strike after 11 months of preventive detention without formal accusation or sentence in Unit 6 of Rawson, Chubut. During yesterday morning he filed a written complaint addressed to the Federal Court of Bariloche, to the Head of Unit, to the Executive Branch and to whomever it may concern, for the serious prison conditions in which he is found and the constant violation of his rights as a member of an indigenous people; writing where, in addition, he specified the demands for which he is mobilized. However, the management of the maximum security prison where he is located, in the city of Rawson, did not send the text of the complaint to the court (as it should have done). Today, the Bariloche court confirmed to its lawyers from the Lawyers’ Guild that the prison did not send the letter.
At the same time, starting yesterday, when the hunger strike began, the Rawson Prison staff (shift chief and requisition staff) exercised mistreatment and discrimination when they announced the strike. So today they did not allow him to go to school, arguing that because there is a strike he could not attend. However, they forced him to go out into the yard. This is yet another violation of his rights.
We denounce this situation because it is serious, it is no coincidence that the note exposing the prison conditions just disappeared, even from a legal point of view because the document did not even reach the defense lawyers.
Below we transcribe the note issued by Lonko Facundo Jones Huala. Enough political persecution. For Lonko, his freedom now and/or transfer to Esquel.
4/27/2026
To the Federal Court of Bariloche, to the head of the Unit, to the Executive Branch, to whomever it may concern, their office.
With the greatest consideration, I address you in my capacity as a Mapuche political prisoner, in order to inform that I have once again begun a Liquid Hunger Strike, of an indefinite nature, with the possibility of converting it into a Dry Strike.
As Lonko, traditional authority of my Lof, community, ensuring respect for my political and cultural rights means doing so for all my people. I not only come to denounce political imprisonment, but also, and therefore, the worsening of detention conditions. First, because of the distance from my family and community, and then, because in this unit there are no prison conditions for anyone, least of all political prisoners of the Mapuche culture.
To the ignorance of the federal prison service and society, it must be added that, according to the changes in personnel and leadership, the protocols with respect to my culture change. From the beginning, lawen’s entry was not respected in a complete and correct way, but also, having brought partial solutions, these are unknown today. The exit to the realization of my llellipun is altered according to the procedures or requisition shifts, being corrected only when there are managers with good will.
In everyday life there is no going out to the patio, it is mandatory only once a week when they want, even in the rain and due to search procedures, where they repeatedly break belongings or steal. These patios do not have access to bathrooms and we must walk through urine and human excrement.
The conditions of the pavilion are worsening instead of improving, being more internal, the freezer is smaller, due to the failures of the electrical system that burned the previous one due to leaks in the cables. Winter is coming and the people in charge who broke the heater haven’t fixed it. Floods are daily, like water cuts, just as a detail of daily life. As far as my culture is concerned, very little is respected. I cannot wear my clothing, nor carry out my practices except when the service allows it, but aggravated by the distance, it becomes practically impossible to carry out, for example, the wetripantu, Mapuche New Year, even if it is authorized. They are breaking my family and community ties, attacking my culture and spirituality. I do not have access not only to Lawen, but also to Mapuche food, and not only am I not convicted or even prosecuted, even with ten conduct. Held in a maximum security prison just for seeking dignity and justice for my people.
We have and demand the right to our territory, language, culture, medicine, spirituality, organization, justice.
Before the ships arrived, we were already here, we still are and we will be here in the future. We already know your corrupt world, but you do not know ours, there are still possibilities to build in harmony and remedy the dispossession.
Ngechen müley tañi mogen
These are my demands:
-Decent prison conditions.
-Fair trial, due process.
-Transfer to the U14 of Esquel due to family proximity and to my lof.
-Application of ILO Convention 169, measures other than imprisonment.
-Cessation of political persecution and prosecution of all Mapuche fighters.
-Return of ancestral territory to the lofs in conflict.
-Political, non-judicial or repressive solution to the historical conflict.
-Application of article 75, paragraphs 17 and 22 of the National Constitution.
-Intervention of human rights organizations and international mediators for an appropriate political solution.
-Remove all Lof and Mapuche organizations from the list of terrorist organizations.
-According cultural protocols in the penitentiary system and every institution that they force us to transit.
-Cessation and withdrawal of mining, oil, transnational companies and landowners from Wallmapu.
-Freedom for all Mapuche political prisoners.
Without further ado, waiting for a prompt and favorable resolution. Greetings sincerely.
Francisco Facundo Jones Huala, Mapuche political prisoner.
DNI: 32,320,648
Lonko Curramapu, Cushamen. Pavilion 5. Rawson Headquarters.
Resumen Latinoamericano, April 29, 2026
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Statement from Mapuche Lavkenche Political Prisoners of the Grollmus and Los Ríos Cases
Mari Mari kom pu che. We salute all the lov in resistance, our families and pu wenuy who have accompanied us during this process of political imprisonment in the CCP of Concepción. To begin, we want to report the end of the preparation for the oral trial of the so-called Grollmus case, which lasted for more than 10 days in the Cañete Guarantee Court.
During its development, we were able to verify the weakness of the case that is only supported by statements from protected witnesses, whose testimonies have been obtained through various tricks committed by the prosecutor of the case, Danilo Ramos, and who today has him accused of the crime of prevarication after recognizing that he formalized without evidence a lamuen to collaborate with the investigation, violating his presumption of innocence, his right to remain silent and blatantly transgressing due process. This fact demonstrates how the prosecution together with the police have designed a case through agreements with defendants in other cases so that they testify against us at the expense of reduced sentences and alternative solutions and that today, as we said, they have the prosecutor sued and charged for recognizing how part of the testimonies of the protected witnesses have been obtained, whose stories have kept us in preventive detention for more than 16 months.
This situation adds to the story of criminality that the prosecution has developed in the media against the political prisoners, denying our Mapuche ancestry and commitment to the recovery of the territory usurped by foresters, settlers and landowners. The above is expressed with the intention of the plaintiffs to incorporate the former coordinator of the “Southern Macrozone” during the Piñera government, Pablo Urquizar, as an “expert” in the trial to reaffirm their racist and criminalizing story, which was rejected by the court at the request and allegation of our defenses.
But this is not the only thing. We have also seen how the judiciary has colluded with the prosecution to continue failing to comply with its own law, by once again postponing the trial against the two minors accused in the same case, whose oral trial by order of the Supreme Court should have begun on April 23, but by official and incomprehensible manner it was postponed to June 23, which translates for our peñi into two more months of provisional confinement in the Coronel prison. All these elements confirm that this case is only supported by a criminal narrative and the explicit abuse of the legal powers of the prosecutor and the police, which, we believe, will be demonstrated in the oral trial that will ultimately lead to our acquittal.
From the Concepción prison we reiterate our greetings and gratitude to all those who have supported us during this process. To the communities and lov that continue to resist and support territorial recoveries, especially to the Lov Rgaliko that was evicted and its rukas burned by the repressive forces in Alto Bío Bío. To the Mapuche and social organizations of Greater Concepción that have selflessly backed and supported us. To the comrades of Penco who resist the large mining of rare earths that intends to establish itself and destroy their territory. And to all our Mapuche people in resistance and political prisoners in the different prisons of Valdivia, Temuco, Angol, Coronel and Lebu.
Freedom for all Mapuche political prisoners!
Unit in the weichan!
Mapuche political prisoners of the Grollmus-Los Rios Cases.
Concepción Prison April 26, 2026
Sent to La Zarzamora
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Statement from Mapuche Lavkenche Political Prisoners of the Grollmus and Los Ríos Cases
Mari Mari kom pu che. We salute all the lov in resistance, our families and pu wenuy who have accompanied us during this process of political imprisonment in the CCP of Concepción. To begin, we want to report the end of the preparation for the oral trial of the so-called Grollmus case, which lasted for more than 10 days in the Cañete Guarantee Court.
During its development, we were able to verify the weakness of the case that is only supported by statements from protected witnesses, whose testimonies have been obtained through various tricks committed by the prosecutor of the case, Danilo Ramos, and who today has him accused of the crime of prevarication after recognizing that he formalized without evidence a lamuen to collaborate with the investigation, violating his presumption of innocence, his right to remain silent and blatantly transgressing due process. This fact demonstrates how the prosecution together with the police have designed a case through agreements with defendants in other cases so that they testify against us at the expense of reduced sentences and alternative solutions and that today, as we said, they have the prosecutor sued and charged for recognizing how part of the testimonies of the protected witnesses have been obtained, whose stories have kept us in preventive detention for more than 16 months.
This situation adds to the story of criminality that the prosecution has developed in the media against the political prisoners, denying our Mapuche ancestry and commitment to the recovery of the territory usurped by foresters, settlers and landowners. The above is expressed with the intention of the plaintiffs to incorporate the former coordinator of the “Southern Macrozone” during the Piñera government, Pablo Urquizar, as an “expert” in the trial to reaffirm their racist and criminalizing story, which was rejected by the court at the request and allegation of our defenses.
But this is not the only thing. We have also seen how the judiciary has colluded with the prosecution to continue failing to comply with its own law, by once again postponing the trial against the two minors accused in the same case, whose oral trial by order of the Supreme Court should have begun on April 23, but by official and incomprehensible manner it was postponed to June 23, which translates for our peñi into two more months of provisional confinement in the Coronel prison. All these elements confirm that this case is only supported by a criminal narrative and the explicit abuse of the legal powers of the prosecutor and the police, which, we believe, will be demonstrated in the oral trial that will ultimately lead to our acquittal.
From the Concepción prison we reiterate our greetings and gratitude to all those who have supported us during this process. To the communities and lov that continue to resist and support territorial recoveries, especially to the Lov Rgaliko that was evicted and its rukas burned by the repressive forces in Alto Bío Bío. To the Mapuche and social organizations of Greater Concepción that have selflessly backed and supported us. To the comrades of Penco who resist the large mining of rare earths that intends to establish itself and destroy their territory. And to all our Mapuche people in resistance and political prisoners in the different prisons of Valdivia, Temuco, Angol, Coronel and Lebu.
Freedom for all Mapuche political prisoners!
Unit in the weichan!
Mapuche political prisoners of the Grollmus-Los Rios Cases.
Concepción Prison April 26, 2026
Sent to La Zarzamora
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Héctor Llaitul: Boric’s Role in the Neofascist Offensive in Wallmapu
The Boric administration will be remembered as the worst of the post-dictatorship governments for the struggle of the Mapuche Nation. An assessment of the actions carried out by his administration highlights:
– Militarization of Wallmapu through the bellicose States of Emergency, which were maintained permanently throughout his four years in office.
– The failed Peace and Understanding Agreement, which turned out to be a farce and a mockery of the communities, which is why it received widespread rejection from the entire Mapuche movement. Its most concrete result was the complete lack of land restitution.
– Modernization of the State’s repressive apparatus, which involved, among other things, the acquisition of Israeli technology for police use and abuse in Wallmapu.
– Reestablishment of the National Security Doctrine, which provided the ideological framework for persecution and repression, as during the Pinochet dictatorship, and which currently defines the Mapuche people as the internal enemy of the Chilean State.
– Continued criminalization of the Mapuche cause through much harsher legislation, which includes even more cruel and repressive laws and regulations, such as the anti-land occupation law, designed to return land to forestry companies. The Naím Retamal law, or “trigger-happy” law, grants impunity to police and military personnel who commit acts of repression. The refinement of the Anti-Terrorist Law extends to the persecution of even the support networks of those who struggle.
– Persecution and imprisonment of the largest number of Mapuche community members ever seen under previous governments, now exceeding 150 Mapuche Political Prisoners (MPPs). These prisoners are subjected to degrading treatment and violations of their political and cultural rights, including cases of torture.
– Repression of all demonstrations and movements for the essential rights of the Mapuche Nation, primarily those concerning land reclamation, where progress in territorial restitution for many communities was also halted. This was achieved through repressive policies carried out by judges, police, and prosecutors, many of whom are known to be anti-Mapuche and operated within a militarized context where prerogatives and actions are at the disposal of the Armed Forces.
In short, the Boric government used repression, militarization, imprisonment, torture, and various abuses against our people to strengthen the system of domination.
Furthermore, he intensified extreme neoliberal policies. This was evident not only in his economic measures favoring businesses in ancestral territory, but also at the national level, such as the ratification of the TPP 11; the signing of free trade agreements with the European Union, China, and US imperialism; the privatization of copper to Canadian capital; and the privatization of lithium and its transfer to transnational corporations, where the figure of Ponce Lerou, Pinochet’s former son-in-law, was given preferential treatment, despite his active participation in the privatization of ancestral Mapuche territory.
So, what did Boric, the Broad Front, the Communist Party, and the former Concertación coalition do as a government? The answer is clear and unequivocal: they betrayed the Mapuche people and handed us over to oppressive institutions, thus perpetuating the system of domination. Without a doubt, they attempted, with the full force of the State, to halt the struggle for the reconstruction of the Nation, the defense and recovery of our ancestral lands. They disregarded our historical demands. Our fundamental struggle is against the capitalist regime that devastates and plunders our historical territory. Our struggle is against the unscrupulous businesspeople who, through their investments, destroy our ancestral lands.
We are a Nation with a centuries-long history of struggle against domination and invasion, and we know very well how the elites, the Chilean bourgeoisie, have built their power on the foundation of dispossession, oppression, exploitation, and injustices against our people.
Today, Boric leaves with his arrogant rhetoric, but he will be remembered as a despot who sought to use us as a symbol of struggle and then betrayed us, siding with the same powerful elites as always.
Boric will go down in history as a sinister individual who facilitated all the conditions for the far right to bring Kast to power, and to launch a neo-fascist offensive that will amount to a new war of extermination for the Mapuche people. In fact, Boric has ensured impunity for the repressors of the Mapuche movement, giving free rein to forestry capital and revealing his true reactionary and treacherous nature toward the Mapuche cause.
Beyond the measures denounced, Boric will be remembered for having paved the way for the fascists, favoring the powerful and the main economic groups, since his administration reproduced the neoliberal model, allowing the realignment of big capital in Wallmapu and in present-day Chile.
These policies, in structural and ideological terms, have created the conditions for the accumulation and reproduction of large capital in the usurped territories, placing themselves against the processes of autonomous territorial restitution that we, the communities and organizations in resistance, are carrying out with dignity. This will exacerbate the contradictions and intensify the territorial struggle.
The Mapuche struggle will not stop in the face of a new offensive by fascism. Our ancestors already taught us the path of resistance; from our lonko (chiefs) we learned the marrichiweu ka weuwaiñ pu peñi pu lamngen (the spirit of resistance for our brothers and sisters).
Freedom for the imprisoned Mapuche political prisoners and all the imprisoned weichafe (warriors)!
By Héctor Llaitul Carrillanca /Werken Noticias /Resumen Latinoamericano, March 14, 2026.
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Héctor Llaitul: Boric’s Role in the Neofascist Offensive in Wallmapu
The Boric administration will be remembered as the worst of the post-dictatorship governments for the struggle of the Mapuche Nation. An assessment of the actions carried out by his administration highlights:
– Militarization of Wallmapu through the bellicose States of Emergency, which were maintained permanently throughout his four years in office.
– The failed Peace and Understanding Agreement, which turned out to be a farce and a mockery of the communities, which is why it received widespread rejection from the entire Mapuche movement. Its most concrete result was the complete lack of land restitution.
– Modernization of the State’s repressive apparatus, which involved, among other things, the acquisition of Israeli technology for police use and abuse in Wallmapu.
– Reestablishment of the National Security Doctrine, which provided the ideological framework for persecution and repression, as during the Pinochet dictatorship, and which currently defines the Mapuche people as the internal enemy of the Chilean State.
– Continued criminalization of the Mapuche cause through much harsher legislation, which includes even more cruel and repressive laws and regulations, such as the anti-land occupation law, designed to return land to forestry companies. The Naím Retamal law, or “trigger-happy” law, grants impunity to police and military personnel who commit acts of repression. The refinement of the Anti-Terrorist Law extends to the persecution of even the support networks of those who struggle.
– Persecution and imprisonment of the largest number of Mapuche community members ever seen under previous governments, now exceeding 150 Mapuche Political Prisoners (MPPs). These prisoners are subjected to degrading treatment and violations of their political and cultural rights, including cases of torture.
– Repression of all demonstrations and movements for the essential rights of the Mapuche Nation, primarily those concerning land reclamation, where progress in territorial restitution for many communities was also halted. This was achieved through repressive policies carried out by judges, police, and prosecutors, many of whom are known to be anti-Mapuche and operated within a militarized context where prerogatives and actions are at the disposal of the Armed Forces.
In short, the Boric government used repression, militarization, imprisonment, torture, and various abuses against our people to strengthen the system of domination.
Furthermore, he intensified extreme neoliberal policies. This was evident not only in his economic measures favoring businesses in ancestral territory, but also at the national level, such as the ratification of the TPP 11; the signing of free trade agreements with the European Union, China, and US imperialism; the privatization of copper to Canadian capital; and the privatization of lithium and its transfer to transnational corporations, where the figure of Ponce Lerou, Pinochet’s former son-in-law, was given preferential treatment, despite his active participation in the privatization of ancestral Mapuche territory.
So, what did Boric, the Broad Front, the Communist Party, and the former Concertación coalition do as a government? The answer is clear and unequivocal: they betrayed the Mapuche people and handed us over to oppressive institutions, thus perpetuating the system of domination. Without a doubt, they attempted, with the full force of the State, to halt the struggle for the reconstruction of the Nation, the defense and recovery of our ancestral lands. They disregarded our historical demands. Our fundamental struggle is against the capitalist regime that devastates and plunders our historical territory. Our struggle is against the unscrupulous businesspeople who, through their investments, destroy our ancestral lands.
We are a Nation with a centuries-long history of struggle against domination and invasion, and we know very well how the elites, the Chilean bourgeoisie, have built their power on the foundation of dispossession, oppression, exploitation, and injustices against our people.
Today, Boric leaves with his arrogant rhetoric, but he will be remembered as a despot who sought to use us as a symbol of struggle and then betrayed us, siding with the same powerful elites as always.
Boric will go down in history as a sinister individual who facilitated all the conditions for the far right to bring Kast to power, and to launch a neo-fascist offensive that will amount to a new war of extermination for the Mapuche people. In fact, Boric has ensured impunity for the repressors of the Mapuche movement, giving free rein to forestry capital and revealing his true reactionary and treacherous nature toward the Mapuche cause.
Beyond the measures denounced, Boric will be remembered for having paved the way for the fascists, favoring the powerful and the main economic groups, since his administration reproduced the neoliberal model, allowing the realignment of big capital in Wallmapu and in present-day Chile.
These policies, in structural and ideological terms, have created the conditions for the accumulation and reproduction of large capital in the usurped territories, placing themselves against the processes of autonomous territorial restitution that we, the communities and organizations in resistance, are carrying out with dignity. This will exacerbate the contradictions and intensify the territorial struggle.
The Mapuche struggle will not stop in the face of a new offensive by fascism. Our ancestors already taught us the path of resistance; from our lonko (chiefs) we learned the marrichiweu ka weuwaiñ pu peñi pu lamngen (the spirit of resistance for our brothers and sisters).
Freedom for the imprisoned Mapuche political prisoners and all the imprisoned weichafe (warriors)!
By Héctor Llaitul Carrillanca /Werken Noticias /Resumen Latinoamericano, March 14, 2026.
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Mapuche Political Prisoners Begin Hunger Strike
Pressure escalates in the Quilleco Case: Mapuche community members on indefinite hunger strike to demand the annulment of the trial, due process, and urgent improvements at the Temuco Correctional Center.
The Quilleco Case adds a new chapter of pressure. According to a document received by this newsroom, Mapuche political prisoners have begun an indefinite hunger strike and are targeting the January sentence, accusing the court of violating due process.
In the document, the community members communicate “the current state” of their situation and emphasize that the measure is not symbolic: they demand the annulment of the guilty verdict, call for respect for due process, and, furthermore, raise once again the issue of the prison conditions in the Mapuche community member module at the Temuco Penitentiary Center (CCP).
Indefinite Hunger Strike in the Quilleco Case: The Demands of the Mapuche Political Prisoners
The statement reads:
“Through this statement, we wish to communicate the current situation of ourselves, the Mapuche political prisoners in the Quilleco case, who today, February 16, 2026, began an indefinite hunger strike demanding the following:
1. The annulment of the guilty verdict in which we were sentenced on January 20, 2026, in the Los Ángeles Criminal Court, to 15 and 17 years in prison.
2. Respect for due process and an end to political convictions.
3. Improvements in prison conditions within and for the Mapuche community members module at the Temuco Correctional Center.”The text frames the hunger strike as a response to a conviction that, they assert, was handed down in an environment unfavorable to the defense and with a pattern of criminalization that is not new to Mapuche and social organizations that have followed the case.
Resumen Latinoamericano, February 18, 2026
SOURCE: El Ciudadano
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Mapuche Political Prisoners Begin Hunger Strike
Pressure escalates in the Quilleco Case: Mapuche community members on indefinite hunger strike to demand the annulment of the trial, due process, and urgent improvements at the Temuco Correctional Center.
The Quilleco Case adds a new chapter of pressure. According to a document received by this newsroom, Mapuche political prisoners have begun an indefinite hunger strike and are targeting the January sentence, accusing the court of violating due process.
In the document, the community members communicate “the current state” of their situation and emphasize that the measure is not symbolic: they demand the annulment of the guilty verdict, call for respect for due process, and, furthermore, raise once again the issue of the prison conditions in the Mapuche community member module at the Temuco Penitentiary Center (CCP).
Indefinite Hunger Strike in the Quilleco Case: The Demands of the Mapuche Political Prisoners
The statement reads:
“Through this statement, we wish to communicate the current situation of ourselves, the Mapuche political prisoners in the Quilleco case, who today, February 16, 2026, began an indefinite hunger strike demanding the following:
1. The annulment of the guilty verdict in which we were sentenced on January 20, 2026, in the Los Ángeles Criminal Court, to 15 and 17 years in prison.
2. Respect for due process and an end to political convictions.
3. Improvements in prison conditions within and for the Mapuche community members module at the Temuco Correctional Center.”The text frames the hunger strike as a response to a conviction that, they assert, was handed down in an environment unfavorable to the defense and with a pattern of criminalization that is not new to Mapuche and social organizations that have followed the case.
Resumen Latinoamericano, February 18, 2026
SOURCE: El Ciudadano
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L'extermination des Selknam est l'élimination presque totale des Selknam, l'une des trois populations autochtones habitant en Terre de Feu, entre la fin XIXe siècle et le début XXe siècle. Cette extermination s'est étendue sur une période comprise entre dix et quinze ans. Les Selknam, dont la population était estimée à 6000 personnes, ont été réduits au nombre de 100[2].
Source https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_des_Selknam
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L'extermination des Selknam est l'élimination presque totale des Selknam, l'une des trois populations autochtones habitant en Terre de Feu, entre la fin XIXe siècle et le début XXe siècle. Cette extermination s'est étendue sur une période comprise entre dix et quinze ans. Les Selknam, dont la population était estimée à 6000 personnes, ont été réduits au nombre de 100[2].
Source https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_des_Selknam
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L'extermination des Selknam est l'élimination presque totale des Selknam, l'une des trois populations autochtones habitant en Terre de Feu, entre la fin XIXe siècle et le début XXe siècle. Cette extermination s'est étendue sur une période comprise entre dix et quinze ans. Les Selknam, dont la population était estimée à 6000 personnes, ont été réduits au nombre de 100[2].
Source https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_des_Selknam
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Mapuche Political Prisoners Sentenced in a Trial Characterized by Frame-Ups
On January 20, the bad Chilean judicial system has sentenced to 7 years in prison the werkén Rafael Pichún, accused of masterminding an alleged fire in a truck, in a new ruling that shows the permanent criminalization of the Mapuche struggle.
Along with this sentence, the rest of the lamien were sentenced to 15 years in prison, disproportionate sentences that not only punish individuals, but also seek to hit entire communities, sow fear and dismantle the processes of resistance and territorial recovery.
This new verdict is part of a long history of frame-ups, political persecution and the use of the judicial apparatus as a tool of control, where the Mapuche word is ignored and collective rights are systematically violated.
The role of the werkén, ancestral messenger and spokesperson, is once again punished, transforming him into an “internal enemy” for the sole fact of raising the voice of his people and we denounce once again the Mapuche political prison, the militarization of the Wallmapu and the structural racism of the Chilean State.
Freedom for Mapuche political prisoners.
Amulepe taiñ weichan.
SOURCE: Radio Primero de Mayo
Resumen Latinoamericano, January 20, 2026
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Mapuche Political Prisoners Sentenced in a Trial Characterized by Frame-Ups
On January 20, the bad Chilean judicial system has sentenced to 7 years in prison the werkén Rafael Pichún, accused of masterminding an alleged fire in a truck, in a new ruling that shows the permanent criminalization of the Mapuche struggle.
Along with this sentence, the rest of the lamien were sentenced to 15 years in prison, disproportionate sentences that not only punish individuals, but also seek to hit entire communities, sow fear and dismantle the processes of resistance and territorial recovery.
This new verdict is part of a long history of frame-ups, political persecution and the use of the judicial apparatus as a tool of control, where the Mapuche word is ignored and collective rights are systematically violated.
The role of the werkén, ancestral messenger and spokesperson, is once again punished, transforming him into an “internal enemy” for the sole fact of raising the voice of his people and we denounce once again the Mapuche political prison, the militarization of the Wallmapu and the structural racism of the Chilean State.
Freedom for Mapuche political prisoners.
Amulepe taiñ weichan.
SOURCE: Radio Primero de Mayo
Resumen Latinoamericano, January 20, 2026
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“Operation Huracán Has Not Ended”: Column by Héctor Llaitul
“With the determination of those responsible in the set-up in the Huracán case, the repressive policy of the State is well established and has had and continues with all previous governments and the current one, which, in our opinion, is the worst of all for leaving on a platter to the ultra-right the certain possibility of policies of extermination of our people…”
Knowing the verdict handed down by the Temuco Court in the so-called Huracán Case and which reveals one of the most serious police setups since the end of the civil-military dictatorship, we want to highlight that, beyond the conviction of two generals and the operational heads of the intelligence unit, this resolution does not directly establish, nor does it point out anything about the responsibility of the political authorities who were involved in this intelligence operation against the Mapuche movement in struggle.
Because it must be absolutely clear that it was an operation directed against the Mapuche Autonomist and Revolutionary Movement, where not only evidence was fabricated, information was manipulated that ended with Mapuche community members arrested based mainly on false messages, but also attempted to distort the true nature of the historical conflict.
By the way, we are referring to the responsibility of the government of Michelle Bachelet and her Undersecretary of the Interior Mahmud Aleuy, who are directly responsible for the implementation of this repressive policy of persecution.
Along with this omission, and beyond the fact that it has not been possible to criminally configure the idea of an illicit association to mount evidence against community members – which would have implications in other cases -, here is another aspect that raises a lot of distrust and that has to do with a kind of compromise that the state institutions have offered to the business community, those that are directly committed to our fight for Mapuche territorial and political claims.
A negotiation that offers stability so that the powerful continue plundering the ancestral Wallmapu.
This is why we can deduce and affirm that, from the beginning, the objective sought by this intelligence operation was to try to distort and muddy the just and centuries-old struggle of our Nation People, inventing a supposed intersection of communication and information of the different expressions of the Mapuche cause.
We are also of the opinion that the responsibilities in the Huracán case are not limited to the political, police and prosecutorial authorities.
The media dimension, the actions of the large media outlets at the service of the powerful, have also not been subject to criminal charges, official and right-wing media belonging to large economic groups that contributed to legitimizing an operation that was fraudulent and criminal. A journalism that, as in the times of the dictatorship, has become, by action or negligence, an ally of a state-business setup.
A repressive and fraudulent state policy
We believe that the background of mounting tests responds to a State policy with the aim of primarily persecuting our organization, the expression of struggle that is the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco – CAM and its historical leadership.
Because it was not only about demonizing it, but also about distorting its objectives, its scope, the approaches and the political action, that is, trying to hit the process of transformations against extractivist policies, as well as against the plundering of ancestral territory, to achieve the development of a proposal for the reconstruction of the Mapuche Nation based, mainly, on a project of rearticulation of communities with an autonomist and self-determination perspective, a process based on an anti-capitalist praxis, anti-oligarchic and anti-imperialist.
In this context, the direction of this assembly was very clear, going against a leadership consistent with the revolutionary approaches from the Mapuche world. It is for this reason that we maintain that the scope of Huracán persists, because the leaders who follow the path of territorial and revolutionary political struggle today are prisoners by the Chilean State itself.
It is also necessary to emphasize that with the determination of those responsible for the set-up in the Huracán case, the repressive policy of the State is well established and that it continues with all previous governments and the current one, which, in our opinion, is the worst of all for leaving on a platter to the ultra-right the certain possibility of policies of extermination of our people.
A new justice as far as possible
With this judicial resolution it has been intended to establish justice, but the truth is that it only favors the usurpers, by trying to cover up those who ordered the set-up, the political power of the day that was not reached.
With this sentence, only some will be left with lesser or remitted sentences, despite the fact that the evidence, the facts portray and reveal the actions of the State as a whole.
It is the state institutionality that continued and never stopped in its persecution against the Mapuche Autonomist and Revolutionary Movement. Let us remember that with Piñera complaints were filed against Mapuche werkenes and that Boric expanded them; that with Piñera the State of Exception was imposed, and that with Boric they have become permanent in Wallmapu, consolidating the militarization so desired and applauded by the extreme right.
The police involved will not be sentenced to high sentences as is the case with the weichafe who have been sentenced to more than 40 years in prison. Not even those who murdered our weichafe from behind have been fairly condemned.
Another no small aspect is that this government, along with establishing greater repression, gave the green light to practically the same agencies and agents of the State to devise and apply other intelligence operations, and thereby prosecute and condemn the leaders of the CAM. Therefore, we believe that, currently, with the militarization of Wallmapu and the new imposed order, impunity will prevail for the repressors of the Mapuche cause.
We are your ‘internal enemy’
With the experience of the Huracán case there is a clear consequence and projection, because despite the condemnation of some State agents that includes police generals, the repressive logic and doctrine was maintained and will continue in Wallmapu.
Evidence of this is that despite the background and the length of the case process, this government deepened the repression and political persecution of the movement in struggle, reestablishing the national security doctrine and defining the Mapuche nation as its “internal enemy.”
It was after the Huracán set-up, when the Piñera government filed the complaint against the main leaders of the CAM, primarily against me, (since I had circumvented the Huracán set-up, the main objective of this intelligence operation), a complaint that was expanded with Boric and resulted in the arrest warrant and conviction arbitrarily and without due process.
Today we intend to present the criminal prosecution of a group of police officers, which meant persecuting the actions of the Mapuche movement, only with bad actions, when the background was and is to legitimize the persecution and repression, at any cost, of a political proposal for the liberation and reconstruction of the Mapuche Nation.
The Huracán case continues
In our opinion, the Huracán case, as we pointed out, has not ended, it persists at least in its logic and corrupt practices.
It should be remembered that during the second Piñera government it was Luis Hermosilla who advised on a type of criminal prosecution in the complaints against the Mapuche movement, in addition to racist prosecutors and a corrupt police (the case of Héctor Espinoza).
Subsequently, with the current Boric government, the same prosecutors who participated in the Huracán case have continued in their positions persecuting militants of the Mapuche cause.
To conclude, I must assume a consistent position and affirm that I was convicted under the same logic and repressive policy that derived from the Huracán case, it was certainly in a more meticulous and directed manner, but with the same method of a set-up. Because the purpose was to achieve a conviction as much as possible, the State Security law was applied to me, a regulation that allows political persecution, and which resulted in 15 years in prison just for expressing opinions.
I was also convicted of crimes associated with this law in events where evidence was mounted and records were manipulated (with artificial intelligence) so that judges, in a racist manner and pressured by corporate political power, sentenced me to long prison sentences.
In short, it is clearly established that it was a political condemnation, for reasons of State and business pressure, the same one that mandated the Huracán case.
It should be noted and finally, that despite the persecution, militarization and intelligence operations, the struggle and resistance of the autonomous Mapuche communities continues.
Héctor Llaitul.-
SOURCE: El Ciudadano.com
Resumen Latinoamericano, 13 January 2026
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“Operation Huracán Has Not Ended”: Column by Héctor Llaitul
“With the determination of those responsible in the set-up in the Huracán case, the repressive policy of the State is well established and has had and continues with all previous governments and the current one, which, in our opinion, is the worst of all for leaving on a platter to the ultra-right the certain possibility of policies of extermination of our people…”
Knowing the verdict handed down by the Temuco Court in the so-called Huracán Case and which reveals one of the most serious police setups since the end of the civil-military dictatorship, we want to highlight that, beyond the conviction of two generals and the operational heads of the intelligence unit, this resolution does not directly establish, nor does it point out anything about the responsibility of the political authorities who were involved in this intelligence operation against the Mapuche movement in struggle.
Because it must be absolutely clear that it was an operation directed against the Mapuche Autonomist and Revolutionary Movement, where not only evidence was fabricated, information was manipulated that ended with Mapuche community members arrested based mainly on false messages, but also attempted to distort the true nature of the historical conflict.
By the way, we are referring to the responsibility of the government of Michelle Bachelet and her Undersecretary of the Interior Mahmud Aleuy, who are directly responsible for the implementation of this repressive policy of persecution.
Along with this omission, and beyond the fact that it has not been possible to criminally configure the idea of an illicit association to mount evidence against community members – which would have implications in other cases -, here is another aspect that raises a lot of distrust and that has to do with a kind of compromise that the state institutions have offered to the business community, those that are directly committed to our fight for Mapuche territorial and political claims.
A negotiation that offers stability so that the powerful continue plundering the ancestral Wallmapu.
This is why we can deduce and affirm that, from the beginning, the objective sought by this intelligence operation was to try to distort and muddy the just and centuries-old struggle of our Nation People, inventing a supposed intersection of communication and information of the different expressions of the Mapuche cause.
We are also of the opinion that the responsibilities in the Huracán case are not limited to the political, police and prosecutorial authorities.
The media dimension, the actions of the large media outlets at the service of the powerful, have also not been subject to criminal charges, official and right-wing media belonging to large economic groups that contributed to legitimizing an operation that was fraudulent and criminal. A journalism that, as in the times of the dictatorship, has become, by action or negligence, an ally of a state-business setup.
A repressive and fraudulent state policy
We believe that the background of mounting tests responds to a State policy with the aim of primarily persecuting our organization, the expression of struggle that is the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco – CAM and its historical leadership.
Because it was not only about demonizing it, but also about distorting its objectives, its scope, the approaches and the political action, that is, trying to hit the process of transformations against extractivist policies, as well as against the plundering of ancestral territory, to achieve the development of a proposal for the reconstruction of the Mapuche Nation based, mainly, on a project of rearticulation of communities with an autonomist and self-determination perspective, a process based on an anti-capitalist praxis, anti-oligarchic and anti-imperialist.
In this context, the direction of this assembly was very clear, going against a leadership consistent with the revolutionary approaches from the Mapuche world. It is for this reason that we maintain that the scope of Huracán persists, because the leaders who follow the path of territorial and revolutionary political struggle today are prisoners by the Chilean State itself.
It is also necessary to emphasize that with the determination of those responsible for the set-up in the Huracán case, the repressive policy of the State is well established and that it continues with all previous governments and the current one, which, in our opinion, is the worst of all for leaving on a platter to the ultra-right the certain possibility of policies of extermination of our people.
A new justice as far as possible
With this judicial resolution it has been intended to establish justice, but the truth is that it only favors the usurpers, by trying to cover up those who ordered the set-up, the political power of the day that was not reached.
With this sentence, only some will be left with lesser or remitted sentences, despite the fact that the evidence, the facts portray and reveal the actions of the State as a whole.
It is the state institutionality that continued and never stopped in its persecution against the Mapuche Autonomist and Revolutionary Movement. Let us remember that with Piñera complaints were filed against Mapuche werkenes and that Boric expanded them; that with Piñera the State of Exception was imposed, and that with Boric they have become permanent in Wallmapu, consolidating the militarization so desired and applauded by the extreme right.
The police involved will not be sentenced to high sentences as is the case with the weichafe who have been sentenced to more than 40 years in prison. Not even those who murdered our weichafe from behind have been fairly condemned.
Another no small aspect is that this government, along with establishing greater repression, gave the green light to practically the same agencies and agents of the State to devise and apply other intelligence operations, and thereby prosecute and condemn the leaders of the CAM. Therefore, we believe that, currently, with the militarization of Wallmapu and the new imposed order, impunity will prevail for the repressors of the Mapuche cause.
We are your ‘internal enemy’
With the experience of the Huracán case there is a clear consequence and projection, because despite the condemnation of some State agents that includes police generals, the repressive logic and doctrine was maintained and will continue in Wallmapu.
Evidence of this is that despite the background and the length of the case process, this government deepened the repression and political persecution of the movement in struggle, reestablishing the national security doctrine and defining the Mapuche nation as its “internal enemy.”
It was after the Huracán set-up, when the Piñera government filed the complaint against the main leaders of the CAM, primarily against me, (since I had circumvented the Huracán set-up, the main objective of this intelligence operation), a complaint that was expanded with Boric and resulted in the arrest warrant and conviction arbitrarily and without due process.
Today we intend to present the criminal prosecution of a group of police officers, which meant persecuting the actions of the Mapuche movement, only with bad actions, when the background was and is to legitimize the persecution and repression, at any cost, of a political proposal for the liberation and reconstruction of the Mapuche Nation.
The Huracán case continues
In our opinion, the Huracán case, as we pointed out, has not ended, it persists at least in its logic and corrupt practices.
It should be remembered that during the second Piñera government it was Luis Hermosilla who advised on a type of criminal prosecution in the complaints against the Mapuche movement, in addition to racist prosecutors and a corrupt police (the case of Héctor Espinoza).
Subsequently, with the current Boric government, the same prosecutors who participated in the Huracán case have continued in their positions persecuting militants of the Mapuche cause.
To conclude, I must assume a consistent position and affirm that I was convicted under the same logic and repressive policy that derived from the Huracán case, it was certainly in a more meticulous and directed manner, but with the same method of a set-up. Because the purpose was to achieve a conviction as much as possible, the State Security law was applied to me, a regulation that allows political persecution, and which resulted in 15 years in prison just for expressing opinions.
I was also convicted of crimes associated with this law in events where evidence was mounted and records were manipulated (with artificial intelligence) so that judges, in a racist manner and pressured by corporate political power, sentenced me to long prison sentences.
In short, it is clearly established that it was a political condemnation, for reasons of State and business pressure, the same one that mandated the Huracán case.
It should be noted and finally, that despite the persecution, militarization and intelligence operations, the struggle and resistance of the autonomous Mapuche communities continues.
Héctor Llaitul.-
SOURCE: El Ciudadano.com
Resumen Latinoamericano, 13 January 2026
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=26948 #CAM #chile #HéctorLlaitul #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica -
Mapuche Political Prisoners Begin Liquid-Only Hunger Strike in Concepción
To the Mapuche nation, to the various lov and communities, to Mapuche families, to the various political prisoners incarcerated in other prisons of the colonial state, to the conscious Chilean people, to national and international public opinion, we, the undersigned Mapuche political prisoners, announce the beginning of an indefinite liquid-only hunger strike for the reasons explained below:
Through this document, we inform you that we are currently being held in maximum security module 33 of the Bío Bío Penitentiary Center in the city of Concepción, subjected to a regime of maximum isolation, with 22 hours of confinement and only 2 hours of privacy. In the prison yard, our status as political prisoners, and even more so as Mapuche people, is not respected, despite our being formally charged and awaiting trial. The prison guards have consistently violated international treaties regulating the prison conditions of Indigenous peoples, and even their own internal legislation.
This isolation is compounded by the constant denial of access to information, such as radio or television. Our visits must be conducted via intercom, with the exception of one in-person visit per month. This regime of premature and racist punishment is further exacerbated by the denial of deliveries containing traditional foods from our culture and the exclusion from participating in Mapuche religious activities held periodically within the prison.
It is for the reasons stated above that today, Monday, January 5th, starting at 10:00 AM, we have begun an indefinite liquid-only hunger strike, demanding the following points, which are summarized in the following petition:
1. End to the isolation regime and release from the maximum security module.
2. Creation of a module for Mapuche community members, both convicted and accused, within the Bío Bío Correctional Center.
These two measures are complemented by the following demands:
1. That the prison guards not apply sanctions for the hunger strike we have just begun.
2. Two in-person visits per month.
3. The right to conjugal visits.
4. Attendance at Mapuche ceremonies within the prison.
5. Right to radio and television
6. Right to possess Mapuche instruments and clothing
7. Right to vocational workshops
8. Monthly video calls to communicate with our families
9. Right to hygiene supplies
10. Right to receive packages
11. Prompt visits and respect for our Mapuche families and authorities
Through this document, we also notify the national and regional directorates of the Gendarmerie, the National Institute for Human Rights, and the administration of the Cañete Intercultural Hospital of our mobilization.
– Freedom and respect for all Mapuche political prisoners!
– End the militarization of our territory!
Signed by the Mapuche Political Prisoners:
Federico Astete Catrileo
Tomás Antihuen Santi
Yeferson Antihuen Santi
Felipe Antihuen Santi
Nicolás Rivas Paillao
Maximum Security Module CCP Bio Bio.
Concepción, Monday, January 5, 2026.
SOURCE: Radio Villa Francia
Via https://www.resumenlatinoamericano.org/2026/01/05/nacion-mapuche-229/
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Mapuche Political Prisoners Begin Liquid-Only Hunger Strike in Concepción
To the Mapuche nation, to the various lov and communities, to Mapuche families, to the various political prisoners incarcerated in other prisons of the colonial state, to the conscious Chilean people, to national and international public opinion, we, the undersigned Mapuche political prisoners, announce the beginning of an indefinite liquid-only hunger strike for the reasons explained below:
Through this document, we inform you that we are currently being held in maximum security module 33 of the Bío Bío Penitentiary Center in the city of Concepción, subjected to a regime of maximum isolation, with 22 hours of confinement and only 2 hours of privacy. In the prison yard, our status as political prisoners, and even more so as Mapuche people, is not respected, despite our being formally charged and awaiting trial. The prison guards have consistently violated international treaties regulating the prison conditions of Indigenous peoples, and even their own internal legislation.
This isolation is compounded by the constant denial of access to information, such as radio or television. Our visits must be conducted via intercom, with the exception of one in-person visit per month. This regime of premature and racist punishment is further exacerbated by the denial of deliveries containing traditional foods from our culture and the exclusion from participating in Mapuche religious activities held periodically within the prison.
It is for the reasons stated above that today, Monday, January 5th, starting at 10:00 AM, we have begun an indefinite liquid-only hunger strike, demanding the following points, which are summarized in the following petition:
1. End to the isolation regime and release from the maximum security module.
2. Creation of a module for Mapuche community members, both convicted and accused, within the Bío Bío Correctional Center.
These two measures are complemented by the following demands:
1. That the prison guards not apply sanctions for the hunger strike we have just begun.
2. Two in-person visits per month.
3. The right to conjugal visits.
4. Attendance at Mapuche ceremonies within the prison.
5. Right to radio and television
6. Right to possess Mapuche instruments and clothing
7. Right to vocational workshops
8. Monthly video calls to communicate with our families
9. Right to hygiene supplies
10. Right to receive packages
11. Prompt visits and respect for our Mapuche families and authorities
Through this document, we also notify the national and regional directorates of the Gendarmerie, the National Institute for Human Rights, and the administration of the Cañete Intercultural Hospital of our mobilization.
– Freedom and respect for all Mapuche political prisoners!
– End the militarization of our territory!
Signed by the Mapuche Political Prisoners:
Federico Astete Catrileo
Tomás Antihuen Santi
Yeferson Antihuen Santi
Felipe Antihuen Santi
Nicolás Rivas Paillao
Maximum Security Module CCP Bio Bio.
Concepción, Monday, January 5, 2026.
SOURCE: Radio Villa Francia
Via https://www.resumenlatinoamericano.org/2026/01/05/nacion-mapuche-229/
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Public Statement of Mapuche Political Prisoners in CP Biobío Module 44
Mari mari pu Machi, pu Lonko, pu lamuen, pu peñi, pu pichikeche, pu werken, kom pu che and all the people and means of counter-information that help us, every ppm [Mapuche political prisoner] in the different centers of torture, isolation and extinction such as this CP Biobío.
Kiñe: First of all, we begin by thanking all the people of the free environment, who have accompanied us at all times and at every step we take within these prisons and give us newen to make our political imprisonment as dignified as possible and even knowing how difficult life is outside these walls.
Epu: We come to denounce the mistreatment, racism and abuse of power exercised by the gendarmerie towards subversive, anarchist and Mapuche prisoners. In this case, we PPM have received constant harassment, forcing us to take off our clothes, which if we do not, we are expelled and sanctioned, in addition they falsely accuse us of manipulating sharp elements, without evidence and even falsifying our signatures to assume the sanctions that the gendarmerie applies. We as Mapuche will make it clear to our people and the gendarmerie, that we will not detach ourselves from our clothes, since it is our identity and dignity that they are trying to break, we will not bow to this oppressor, such as the gendarmerie, nor to the Chilean state.
Küla: We send a fraternal embrace of struggle to our brothers and comrades kidnapped in the different prisons of this and other regions, not to be intimidated by this damned justice, which only protects the devastating and predatory companies of the entire Wall Mapu.
Meli: We demand justice for our lamuen Julia Chuñil, who so far has not been found. Without forgetting the peñi who are in the maximum security module of this enclosure (CP Biobío) and we demand the change of regime for our peñi of the maximum, so that they can have a normal courtyard and not the two hours provided by the gendarmerie.
Unity of the Weichan
Long escape to our peñi and comrades who continue to fight clandestinely
Freedom for all ppm
Freedom for all subversive and anarchist prisoners
We demand the withdrawal of the military throughout the Mapuche territory
Justice for Julia Chuñil
Amulepe taiñ weichan
Mapuche Political Prisoners Module 44
Antu Llanka Quidel
Guillermo Camus
Camilo Catrileo Astete
November, 2025
Source: https://lazarzamora.cl/comunicado-publico-presos-politicos-mapuche-cp-biobio-modulo-44/
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=24610
#chile #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #politicalPrisoners #southAmerica
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Public Statement of Mapuche Political Prisoners in CP Biobío Module 44
Mari mari pu Machi, pu Lonko, pu lamuen, pu peñi, pu pichikeche, pu werken, kom pu che and all the people and means of counter-information that help us, every ppm [Mapuche political prisoner] in the different centers of torture, isolation and extinction such as this CP Biobío.
Kiñe: First of all, we begin by thanking all the people of the free environment, who have accompanied us at all times and at every step we take within these prisons and give us newen to make our political imprisonment as dignified as possible and even knowing how difficult life is outside these walls.
Epu: We come to denounce the mistreatment, racism and abuse of power exercised by the gendarmerie towards subversive, anarchist and Mapuche prisoners. In this case, we PPM have received constant harassment, forcing us to take off our clothes, which if we do not, we are expelled and sanctioned, in addition they falsely accuse us of manipulating sharp elements, without evidence and even falsifying our signatures to assume the sanctions that the gendarmerie applies. We as Mapuche will make it clear to our people and the gendarmerie, that we will not detach ourselves from our clothes, since it is our identity and dignity that they are trying to break, we will not bow to this oppressor, such as the gendarmerie, nor to the Chilean state.
Küla: We send a fraternal embrace of struggle to our brothers and comrades kidnapped in the different prisons of this and other regions, not to be intimidated by this damned justice, which only protects the devastating and predatory companies of the entire Wall Mapu.
Meli: We demand justice for our lamuen Julia Chuñil, who so far has not been found. Without forgetting the peñi who are in the maximum security module of this enclosure (CP Biobío) and we demand the change of regime for our peñi of the maximum, so that they can have a normal courtyard and not the two hours provided by the gendarmerie.
Unity of the Weichan
Long escape to our peñi and comrades who continue to fight clandestinely
Freedom for all ppm
Freedom for all subversive and anarchist prisoners
We demand the withdrawal of the military throughout the Mapuche territory
Justice for Julia Chuñil
Amulepe taiñ weichan
Mapuche Political Prisoners Module 44
Antu Llanka Quidel
Guillermo Camus
Camilo Catrileo Astete
November, 2025
Source: https://lazarzamora.cl/comunicado-publico-presos-politicos-mapuche-cp-biobio-modulo-44/
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=24610
#chile #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #politicalPrisoners #southAmerica
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Communiqué by Mapuche Political Prisoners in Temuco Prison
Until our entire Mapuche Nation
Understands
In all Mapuche communities
And Mapuche territorial resistance organizations
That since the Republic of Chile and Argentina
Carried out the military invasion
And depopulation of the ancestral territories of our Mapuche Nation WALLMAPU
Through extermination and GENOCIDE
HAS KEPT US IN THE DECEPTION
PU PEÑI PU LAMNGEN
KAVEY TA KOM TATI PU CHE MAPUCHE
SINCE 1641 our Mapuche Nation WALLMAPU
HAS NEVER LOST
ITS INDEPENDENCE
ITS TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY
ITS POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL AUTONOMY
AND OUR ANCESTRAL AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO HAVE THEIR INHERENT LEVEL AND RECOGNITION THAT WERE RECOGNIZED BY THE GENERAL PARLIAMENT of the Quillin Peaces
STATEMENT BY MAPUCHE POLITICAL PRISONERS OF THE TEMUCO PRISON.
The Mapuche Political Prisoners held in the Temuco prison salute our ancestral authorities Lonko, Machi and Werkenes, our pu Weichafe who resist in Wall Mapu, for the defense of our itrofil mogen. To the conscious and rebellious society we communicate the following:
We have come to denounce the gendarmerie of Chile, which has increased the level of harassment against the P.P.M., to the point of ignoring the judicial rulings that have favored our peñi prisoners. In a clear violation of the law, acting illegally, outside their own law and in a clear example of political persecution against our people.
The facts that demonstrate the above are as follows:
Kiñe: The peñi Fredy Marileo, requested and won in court his transfer from the Temuco prison to the Angol prison closest to his lof. This transfer granted by the courts has been ratified on 3 occasions, but to date it has not been carried out. Understanding that the gendarmerie can no longer appeal this judicial ruling. Keeping the peñi away from their people illegally.
Epu: On Thursday, July 25, after the death of the mother of the peñi Daniel Canio Tralcal, the court of guarantee of Temuco, authorized the departure of the peñi to his lof for a margin of 3 hours, to participate in the eluwun (Mapuche ceremony). A solution that never materialized, since the Chilean gendarmerie did not make it effective.
In a clear display of racism and harassment against our peñi. We consider this to be an extremely serious event, so much so that our peñi was deprived of being able to say goodbye to his ñuke.
Küla: Another serious event that is happening at this time is the illegal detention of our peñi Luis Tralcal Quidel, who to date is deprived of liberty. When there are 3 judicial rulings, which restore the benefit of the daily outing, a benefit that was arbitrarily taken away by the Chilean Gendarmerie.
All these events that have been taking place are a clear example of the offensive against the Mapuche movement and today in prisons the systematic harassment of the p.p.m.
The Gendarmerie of Chile is an auxiliary entity of the judiciary whose function is to enforce judicial rulings. Today we see with concern how this repressive apparatus is breaking its own law, which has already been brutal against the Mapuche autonomy movement.
Today, from the P.P.M. module of the Temuco prison, we make a call to denounce these serious events that have been happening in recent times and we urge all the P.P.M. held in different prisons installed in Wall Mapu to unite their efforts to create an initiative of nütrankagün.
FOR THE FREEDOM OF ALL MAPUCHE POLITICAL PRISONERS.
BY THE UNITED IN THE WEICHAN.
AMULEPE TAIÑ WEICHAN.
Mapuche Political Prisoners of Angol
Resumen Latinoamericano, August 5, 2025
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=20742
#mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica #temuco
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Communiqué by Mapuche Political Prisoners in Temuco Prison
Until our entire Mapuche Nation
Understands
In all Mapuche communities
And Mapuche territorial resistance organizations
That since the Republic of Chile and Argentina
Carried out the military invasion
And depopulation of the ancestral territories of our Mapuche Nation WALLMAPU
Through extermination and GENOCIDE
HAS KEPT US IN THE DECEPTION
PU PEÑI PU LAMNGEN
KAVEY TA KOM TATI PU CHE MAPUCHE
SINCE 1641 our Mapuche Nation WALLMAPU
HAS NEVER LOST
ITS INDEPENDENCE
ITS TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY
ITS POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL AUTONOMY
AND OUR ANCESTRAL AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO HAVE THEIR INHERENT LEVEL AND RECOGNITION THAT WERE RECOGNIZED BY THE GENERAL PARLIAMENT of the Quillin Peaces
STATEMENT BY MAPUCHE POLITICAL PRISONERS OF THE TEMUCO PRISON.
The Mapuche Political Prisoners held in the Temuco prison salute our ancestral authorities Lonko, Machi and Werkenes, our pu Weichafe who resist in Wall Mapu, for the defense of our itrofil mogen. To the conscious and rebellious society we communicate the following:
We have come to denounce the gendarmerie of Chile, which has increased the level of harassment against the P.P.M., to the point of ignoring the judicial rulings that have favored our peñi prisoners. In a clear violation of the law, acting illegally, outside their own law and in a clear example of political persecution against our people.
The facts that demonstrate the above are as follows:
Kiñe: The peñi Fredy Marileo, requested and won in court his transfer from the Temuco prison to the Angol prison closest to his lof. This transfer granted by the courts has been ratified on 3 occasions, but to date it has not been carried out. Understanding that the gendarmerie can no longer appeal this judicial ruling. Keeping the peñi away from their people illegally.
Epu: On Thursday, July 25, after the death of the mother of the peñi Daniel Canio Tralcal, the court of guarantee of Temuco, authorized the departure of the peñi to his lof for a margin of 3 hours, to participate in the eluwun (Mapuche ceremony). A solution that never materialized, since the Chilean gendarmerie did not make it effective.
In a clear display of racism and harassment against our peñi. We consider this to be an extremely serious event, so much so that our peñi was deprived of being able to say goodbye to his ñuke.
Küla: Another serious event that is happening at this time is the illegal detention of our peñi Luis Tralcal Quidel, who to date is deprived of liberty. When there are 3 judicial rulings, which restore the benefit of the daily outing, a benefit that was arbitrarily taken away by the Chilean Gendarmerie.
All these events that have been taking place are a clear example of the offensive against the Mapuche movement and today in prisons the systematic harassment of the p.p.m.
The Gendarmerie of Chile is an auxiliary entity of the judiciary whose function is to enforce judicial rulings. Today we see with concern how this repressive apparatus is breaking its own law, which has already been brutal against the Mapuche autonomy movement.
Today, from the P.P.M. module of the Temuco prison, we make a call to denounce these serious events that have been happening in recent times and we urge all the P.P.M. held in different prisons installed in Wall Mapu to unite their efforts to create an initiative of nütrankagün.
FOR THE FREEDOM OF ALL MAPUCHE POLITICAL PRISONERS.
BY THE UNITED IN THE WEICHAN.
AMULEPE TAIÑ WEICHAN.
Mapuche Political Prisoners of Angol
Resumen Latinoamericano, August 5, 2025
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=20742
#mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica #temuco
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CAM Statement on the Departure of the Papay Inés Tralcal Llanquinao
The papay was the ñuke of the PPM-CAM and lonko of our organization, Daniel Canio Tralcal, who for seven years has faced political imprisonment with great dignity and a stoicism rarely seen. Today, behind bars, it’s time to say goodbye to his ñuke.
For this reason, we demand that the Gendarmerie and those who correspond do not hinder the protocols so that our lonko can attend the eluwun.
In the same way, we demand that the intra-prison benefits that our peñi have been entitled to for a long time be granted as soon as possible.
Finally, as an organization we accompany the family and the community in these difficult times. Weichan family that has always been on the side of the struggle of our people, where the papay has been a fundamental pillar, as well as our peñi Daniel, to whom, as pu weichafe, we send all our recognition and newen at this time.
Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM)
Werken Noticias / Resumen Latinoamericano, July 22, 2025
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=20504
#CAM #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #rip #southAmerica
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CAM Statement on the Departure of the Papay Inés Tralcal Llanquinao
The papay was the ñuke of the PPM-CAM and lonko of our organization, Daniel Canio Tralcal, who for seven years has faced political imprisonment with great dignity and a stoicism rarely seen. Today, behind bars, it’s time to say goodbye to his ñuke.
For this reason, we demand that the Gendarmerie and those who correspond do not hinder the protocols so that our lonko can attend the eluwun.
In the same way, we demand that the intra-prison benefits that our peñi have been entitled to for a long time be granted as soon as possible.
Finally, as an organization we accompany the family and the community in these difficult times. Weichan family that has always been on the side of the struggle of our people, where the papay has been a fundamental pillar, as well as our peñi Daniel, to whom, as pu weichafe, we send all our recognition and newen at this time.
Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM)
Werken Noticias / Resumen Latinoamericano, July 22, 2025
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=20504
#CAM #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #rip #southAmerica
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Mapuche Political Prisoners of Angol Prison Begin Indefinite Liquid Hunger Strike
“Public statement from the Mapuche political prisoners of the prison of angol modulo F.
Marri marri pu lonko, pu machi, pu werken, kom pu wemuy. We also salute all the peñi in the different prisons and those who show solidarity with the Mapuche struggle.
The module of Mapuche political prisoners of the Angol prison. The declaration of a liquid strike, of an indefinite nature, is hereby informed:
Kiñe:
The Mapuche political prisoners module comes to inform the communities in resistance of Malleco and Lof in general. That we have made the difficult decision to carry out a hunger strike, given the negativity that the Chilean gendarmerie has shown, against being able to develop as Mapuche within the penitentiary facilities. Colliding even with indigenous rights, a declaration of human rights and also against ILO Convention 169 itself.
List of Mapuche police prisoners declared on strike:
1. Danilo Nahuelpi Millanao
2. Joaquin Huenchullan Queipul
3. joaquin Millanao Queipul
4. Marcos Tori
5. Matias Ancalaf Prado
6. Moroni Ancalaf Prado
7. Juan Marin Montoya
8. Carlos Marin Marin
9. Anthony Torres Toro
10. Jose lizama Torres
11. Rodrigo Calabrano Ñanco
12. Benjamin Coñopan
13. Alejandro Liguien Venega
14. Pedro Palacio Cañura.
15. Juan Queipul.
Epu:
Gendarmerie of Chile through its representatives in the region, regional director Nestor Flores Anabalon and head of unit, Héctor Miranda Almonoacid. They have been ignoring the existence of the rights protected by international rights organizations and Chilean legislation itself.
-Where we are not allowed, to be able to develop as Mapuche and at the same time as our traditional authorities have been carrying out in all these years. Rather, it is these characters who want to decide how we should carry our mogen on a daily basis inside the prison or module.
-Gendarmerie from Chile to unknown, the 8 points signed by gendarmerie in 2022.
We have been denied the ability to legalize wetripantu, from 2022 onwards.
-We have also been denied the possibility of carrying out the ceremony of changing the folle from 2022 onwards.
-The existence of our traditional authorities, pu machi, pu lonko, pu werken ka pu reñma, has been unknown.
-We have been systematically denied the ability to feed ourselves according to our own worldview and culture. Where it has been these representatives of the gendarmerie, Héctor Miranda himself and Néstor Flores, who have refused to carry out coexistence in a good way within the Angolan penitentiary.
This was recently stated in the meeting held on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, at the regional directorate of gendsrmeria, Temuco. In this meeting, the need to generate a change and to be able to carry out the we tripantu inside the prison with the communities of Malleco and relatives of the Mapuche political prisoners was raised to the gendarmerie authorities. The Chilean gendarmerie opposed it and expressed a political negativity rather than respecting the rights of indigenous peoples. Ignoring the authority of the lonko Victor queipul. Who for the fact of respecting our rights as Mapuche police prisoners inside the prisons of Chile, Gendarmerie accuses him of a threat and locks him up in the prison of Concepción, CCP BIO BIO. Moving him more than 300 kilometers from his territory. In an arbitrary way.
Kila:
We demand the immediate resignation of the regional director of the gendarmerie, Néstor Flores Anabalón and the Head of Unit, Héctor Miranda Almonoacid. Product of the refusal to respect the rights protected in ILO Convention 169 and human rights that protect the existence of indigenous or native peoples. We also hold them responsible for everything that may happen to the health of the Peñi who will face this hunger strike. So that once and for all, our quality as a people belonging to this territory and of which we have been a part since time immemorial is respected. We understand that we are not on the best side, but we are part of a people that is characterized by unwavering struggle, by its spirituality, by its closeness to nature.
For taking care of our itrofil mogen, for protecting our ñuke mapu. The Mapuche take care of paradise, that which does not see the winka, that which does not see the one who seeks to profit, that which does not see the gendarmerie of Chile.
The Mapuche will not tire of fighting. he will never forget his freedom. Because in these lands our bare feet will walk from the great la futa mawuida to the imposing lafken mapu.
Meli:
Finally, we demand the immediate release of Lonko Victor queilpul.
We also call on the communities of Malleco mainly to be attentive to the racist actions of the Gendarmerie of Chile and the puppets of the State, as well as we call on the different LOF and territory of the Wall Mapu, the modules of Mapuche political prisoners to be united in this struggle.
Kiñeukuleiñ tufachi weichan rupu mu.
– Immediate release of the lonko Victor Queipul.
– Freedom for all Mapuche political prisoners
– Dignity and respect for the Mapuche modules
Mapuche political prisoners module F, Angol prison.
June 12, 2025, Wall Mapu.”
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19663
#chile #hungerStrike #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica #Wallmapu
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Mapuche Political Prisoners of Angol Prison Begin Indefinite Liquid Hunger Strike
“Public statement from the Mapuche political prisoners of the prison of angol modulo F.
Marri marri pu lonko, pu machi, pu werken, kom pu wemuy. We also salute all the peñi in the different prisons and those who show solidarity with the Mapuche struggle.
The module of Mapuche political prisoners of the Angol prison. The declaration of a liquid strike, of an indefinite nature, is hereby informed:
Kiñe:
The Mapuche political prisoners module comes to inform the communities in resistance of Malleco and Lof in general. That we have made the difficult decision to carry out a hunger strike, given the negativity that the Chilean gendarmerie has shown, against being able to develop as Mapuche within the penitentiary facilities. Colliding even with indigenous rights, a declaration of human rights and also against ILO Convention 169 itself.
List of Mapuche police prisoners declared on strike:
1. Danilo Nahuelpi Millanao
2. Joaquin Huenchullan Queipul
3. joaquin Millanao Queipul
4. Marcos Tori
5. Matias Ancalaf Prado
6. Moroni Ancalaf Prado
7. Juan Marin Montoya
8. Carlos Marin Marin
9. Anthony Torres Toro
10. Jose lizama Torres
11. Rodrigo Calabrano Ñanco
12. Benjamin Coñopan
13. Alejandro Liguien Venega
14. Pedro Palacio Cañura.
15. Juan Queipul.
Epu:
Gendarmerie of Chile through its representatives in the region, regional director Nestor Flores Anabalon and head of unit, Héctor Miranda Almonoacid. They have been ignoring the existence of the rights protected by international rights organizations and Chilean legislation itself.
-Where we are not allowed, to be able to develop as Mapuche and at the same time as our traditional authorities have been carrying out in all these years. Rather, it is these characters who want to decide how we should carry our mogen on a daily basis inside the prison or module.
-Gendarmerie from Chile to unknown, the 8 points signed by gendarmerie in 2022.
We have been denied the ability to legalize wetripantu, from 2022 onwards.
-We have also been denied the possibility of carrying out the ceremony of changing the folle from 2022 onwards.
-The existence of our traditional authorities, pu machi, pu lonko, pu werken ka pu reñma, has been unknown.
-We have been systematically denied the ability to feed ourselves according to our own worldview and culture. Where it has been these representatives of the gendarmerie, Héctor Miranda himself and Néstor Flores, who have refused to carry out coexistence in a good way within the Angolan penitentiary.
This was recently stated in the meeting held on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, at the regional directorate of gendsrmeria, Temuco. In this meeting, the need to generate a change and to be able to carry out the we tripantu inside the prison with the communities of Malleco and relatives of the Mapuche political prisoners was raised to the gendarmerie authorities. The Chilean gendarmerie opposed it and expressed a political negativity rather than respecting the rights of indigenous peoples. Ignoring the authority of the lonko Victor queipul. Who for the fact of respecting our rights as Mapuche police prisoners inside the prisons of Chile, Gendarmerie accuses him of a threat and locks him up in the prison of Concepción, CCP BIO BIO. Moving him more than 300 kilometers from his territory. In an arbitrary way.
Kila:
We demand the immediate resignation of the regional director of the gendarmerie, Néstor Flores Anabalón and the Head of Unit, Héctor Miranda Almonoacid. Product of the refusal to respect the rights protected in ILO Convention 169 and human rights that protect the existence of indigenous or native peoples. We also hold them responsible for everything that may happen to the health of the Peñi who will face this hunger strike. So that once and for all, our quality as a people belonging to this territory and of which we have been a part since time immemorial is respected. We understand that we are not on the best side, but we are part of a people that is characterized by unwavering struggle, by its spirituality, by its closeness to nature.
For taking care of our itrofil mogen, for protecting our ñuke mapu. The Mapuche take care of paradise, that which does not see the winka, that which does not see the one who seeks to profit, that which does not see the gendarmerie of Chile.
The Mapuche will not tire of fighting. he will never forget his freedom. Because in these lands our bare feet will walk from the great la futa mawuida to the imposing lafken mapu.
Meli:
Finally, we demand the immediate release of Lonko Victor queilpul.
We also call on the communities of Malleco mainly to be attentive to the racist actions of the Gendarmerie of Chile and the puppets of the State, as well as we call on the different LOF and territory of the Wall Mapu, the modules of Mapuche political prisoners to be united in this struggle.
Kiñeukuleiñ tufachi weichan rupu mu.
– Immediate release of the lonko Victor Queipul.
– Freedom for all Mapuche political prisoners
– Dignity and respect for the Mapuche modules
Mapuche political prisoners module F, Angol prison.
June 12, 2025, Wall Mapu.”
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19663
#chile #hungerStrike #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica #Wallmapu
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Héctor Llaitul: The Peace and Understanding Commission is a Farce
Let us be clear, this Commission does not represent the political objectives of our organization and of the Mapuche autonomist movement that is active in the processes of territorial recovery.
Our policy continues to be national reconstruction and the liberation of the Wallmapu, objectives that, once again, are not understood or addressed by the Chilean political class and all its related sectors.
From the beginning we maintained that this Commission was doomed to failure, since, rather than representing the demands of the communities and groups that fight for their lands, it embodies the interests of big business and the latifundia that are today covered up in false discourses of peace and social welfare.
It is these sectors that seek to legitimize their own conception of “peace and understanding”, which is nothing more than a new device to ensure the best conditions to increase and accumulate their profits in our ancestral territoriality. For the same reason, this Commission also functions as a political and media instrument by trying to exclude the Mapuche autonomist movement, and to publicly affirm that the interests of the State and big capital are under threat, they impose their rules and their way of doing politics on the institutional Mapuche sectors. In fact, only the co-opted and functional sectors have had a voice.
In addition to the above, it is important to emphasize that a Commission that is born, meets and concludes in the midst of an active State of Exception on the territory that is the object of it, has no legitimacy. They want to “do politics”, even if the term is too big for them, with the gun on the table and the military besieging communities. Exhibiting with these “proclaimed democratic practices”, a great contradiction.
A Commission that arises in the midst of the militarization of the Wallmapu, and that gathers positions and information materials from the territories under these circumstances, does not meet even the slightest standards of respect for human rights in international matters. At the same time, it is a Commission that has operated since its inception under a neo-indigenous pattern, because the Mapuche communities were not consulted, nor who their representatives would be, nor what the central issues are, nor what the forms of resolution should be. This top-down and tutelary logic is heir to the oldest colonial political systems, where paternalistic representation was imposed by blood and fire.
The truth is that this logic prevents native peoples from having the right to decide on their reality, while others, powerful and noble, did so for them. Today the colonial and racist format of the Chilean capitalist state is repeated again.
Faced with this reality, which has permeated the mechanisms with which the State of Chile deals with the “indigenous question” for decades, the Mapuche autonomist movement emerged with force, from the ’90s, with its own politics, speaking and doing for ourselves, without others supplanting or representing us. But today again this situation was ignored – by the way – by the enlightened progressives behind the Commission.
And the most paradoxical thing is that those who do have a voice are the representatives of the political class and the anti-Mapuche business community.
They are those who for three decades think that the historical conflict between mobilized communities, the State and the representatives of capital in the Wallmapu is solved with persecution, criminalization, set-ups, trials and jail. It seems ridiculous that the supposed “dialogue” for peace, materialized with this Commission, includes precisely the militarists who do not want it and who have swelled their pockets at the expense of the usurping occupation. This is the case of paramilitary commandos, such as APRA, which carry out political operations, rather than acting as an association that represents a union in search of that supposed “peace.”
At the organic and operational level, it turns out to be a Commission built on quicksand, just as was the participation of the Mapuche in the Constituent Convention. For the same reason, by not reaching concrete agreements, the greatest achievement is to show this Commission in its work of preparing a diagnosis regarding what they have called the recovery of lands, an issue that in the Mapuche world makes absolutely no sense because our people, the communities, are absolutely clear about the territorial claims that interest us, to reestablish a territorial design that allows the reconstruction of our Nation People.
With this diagnosis, the Commission intends to justify that the mechanisms for the return of land exist, in the absence of a concrete and precise proposal that determines or makes the return of the territories a reality. However, it constitutes the “workhorse” to cover up a major deception, which is the imposition of marketing techniques, with corruption included, to rearrange the large capitalist investments in our ancestral territory.
A diagnosis that will be presented as a great objective, but that will not be concluded with this government. Nor will the territorial returns that will be long-term and that will only indicate or establish a type of mechanism, a type of form to politically seek compromises and negotiations in future governments.
In short, this new Commission constitutes a real farce, a new foolishness and will form one more link for the current administration, the current neoliberal governance, to project a future government that will be in the hands of the far right.
Seeking peace and understanding to the exclusion of those who struggle is the big question, how can peace be sought in a context of militarization and greater repression? Even more so, with the existence of many Mapuche political prisoners (PPM) who have been prosecuted and convicted only for representing the territorial, autonomist and revolutionary struggle through ideas, forces and political proposals for the reconstruction of our people. Nothing has been said about the weichafe that are kidnapped by the Chilean state. Because as long as there is militarization and Mapuche political prisoners, it is not even possible to initiate dialogues that lead to agreements.
The existence of the PPM occurs in a context of greater persecution and on the basis of exceptional laws that take us back to dictatorial times. In fact, today there are Mapuche political prisoners as a result of the most sophisticated policies to repress and persecute the autonomist movement, which with more strength has taken on the struggle against extractivism and for the reconstruction of our people, processes sustained with the recovery of territorial spaces, today mainly in the hand of the forestry companies.
As a prelude to the presentation of the agreements or the points of the Commission for Peace and Understanding, a real media campaign has been implemented in which the most fascist sectors of the Chilean right participate, obviously covered by the media that are at their service, where the discourse that demonizes the Mapuche cause is reinstated, condemning the violence exercised by communities for territorial recovery.
A discourse that reinstates the concepts of terrorism, rural violence, organized crime to delegitimize and depoliticize the just struggle for territory.
On the other hand, the idea of a supposed agreement for the return of lands is being installed in which there would be a huge amount of money that will be available for territorial reparation to the communities, which is part of the farce that we already know, because in fact this proposal is always diluted along the way and in the end ends up in squalid resources and in almost no viability of land return.
This is a constant under the legislation in force with the participation of CONADI, a rotten and functional organism of the capitalist state. There will only be money to repair the large landowners and to swell the coffers of the forestry companies, who make a big business with the financial speculation of the purchase and sale of the estates usurped from the communities.
Undoubtedly, a new political operation has been launched that tries to give strength and importance to a Commission that in reality has nothing to offer for the resolution of the conflict, because the confrontation is installed on structural, economic foundations, which imply the struggle of an oppressed native people against an invading colonial state and in the face of which there is already a process of struggle and resistance for the reconstruction of the the Mapuche Nation.
The current Mapuche struggle is and will be for territory and autonomy for the Mapuche Nation.
The struggle continues!!
Amulepe taiñ weichan !!
SOURCE: Werken Noticias
By Héctor Llaitul / Resumen Latinoamericano, May 4, 2025
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18946
#Autonomy #CAM #chile #HéctorLlaitul #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica #Wallmapu
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Héctor Llaitul: The Peace and Understanding Commission is a Farce
Let us be clear, this Commission does not represent the political objectives of our organization and of the Mapuche autonomist movement that is active in the processes of territorial recovery.
Our policy continues to be national reconstruction and the liberation of the Wallmapu, objectives that, once again, are not understood or addressed by the Chilean political class and all its related sectors.
From the beginning we maintained that this Commission was doomed to failure, since, rather than representing the demands of the communities and groups that fight for their lands, it embodies the interests of big business and the latifundia that are today covered up in false discourses of peace and social welfare.
It is these sectors that seek to legitimize their own conception of “peace and understanding”, which is nothing more than a new device to ensure the best conditions to increase and accumulate their profits in our ancestral territoriality. For the same reason, this Commission also functions as a political and media instrument by trying to exclude the Mapuche autonomist movement, and to publicly affirm that the interests of the State and big capital are under threat, they impose their rules and their way of doing politics on the institutional Mapuche sectors. In fact, only the co-opted and functional sectors have had a voice.
In addition to the above, it is important to emphasize that a Commission that is born, meets and concludes in the midst of an active State of Exception on the territory that is the object of it, has no legitimacy. They want to “do politics”, even if the term is too big for them, with the gun on the table and the military besieging communities. Exhibiting with these “proclaimed democratic practices”, a great contradiction.
A Commission that arises in the midst of the militarization of the Wallmapu, and that gathers positions and information materials from the territories under these circumstances, does not meet even the slightest standards of respect for human rights in international matters. At the same time, it is a Commission that has operated since its inception under a neo-indigenous pattern, because the Mapuche communities were not consulted, nor who their representatives would be, nor what the central issues are, nor what the forms of resolution should be. This top-down and tutelary logic is heir to the oldest colonial political systems, where paternalistic representation was imposed by blood and fire.
The truth is that this logic prevents native peoples from having the right to decide on their reality, while others, powerful and noble, did so for them. Today the colonial and racist format of the Chilean capitalist state is repeated again.
Faced with this reality, which has permeated the mechanisms with which the State of Chile deals with the “indigenous question” for decades, the Mapuche autonomist movement emerged with force, from the ’90s, with its own politics, speaking and doing for ourselves, without others supplanting or representing us. But today again this situation was ignored – by the way – by the enlightened progressives behind the Commission.
And the most paradoxical thing is that those who do have a voice are the representatives of the political class and the anti-Mapuche business community.
They are those who for three decades think that the historical conflict between mobilized communities, the State and the representatives of capital in the Wallmapu is solved with persecution, criminalization, set-ups, trials and jail. It seems ridiculous that the supposed “dialogue” for peace, materialized with this Commission, includes precisely the militarists who do not want it and who have swelled their pockets at the expense of the usurping occupation. This is the case of paramilitary commandos, such as APRA, which carry out political operations, rather than acting as an association that represents a union in search of that supposed “peace.”
At the organic and operational level, it turns out to be a Commission built on quicksand, just as was the participation of the Mapuche in the Constituent Convention. For the same reason, by not reaching concrete agreements, the greatest achievement is to show this Commission in its work of preparing a diagnosis regarding what they have called the recovery of lands, an issue that in the Mapuche world makes absolutely no sense because our people, the communities, are absolutely clear about the territorial claims that interest us, to reestablish a territorial design that allows the reconstruction of our Nation People.
With this diagnosis, the Commission intends to justify that the mechanisms for the return of land exist, in the absence of a concrete and precise proposal that determines or makes the return of the territories a reality. However, it constitutes the “workhorse” to cover up a major deception, which is the imposition of marketing techniques, with corruption included, to rearrange the large capitalist investments in our ancestral territory.
A diagnosis that will be presented as a great objective, but that will not be concluded with this government. Nor will the territorial returns that will be long-term and that will only indicate or establish a type of mechanism, a type of form to politically seek compromises and negotiations in future governments.
In short, this new Commission constitutes a real farce, a new foolishness and will form one more link for the current administration, the current neoliberal governance, to project a future government that will be in the hands of the far right.
Seeking peace and understanding to the exclusion of those who struggle is the big question, how can peace be sought in a context of militarization and greater repression? Even more so, with the existence of many Mapuche political prisoners (PPM) who have been prosecuted and convicted only for representing the territorial, autonomist and revolutionary struggle through ideas, forces and political proposals for the reconstruction of our people. Nothing has been said about the weichafe that are kidnapped by the Chilean state. Because as long as there is militarization and Mapuche political prisoners, it is not even possible to initiate dialogues that lead to agreements.
The existence of the PPM occurs in a context of greater persecution and on the basis of exceptional laws that take us back to dictatorial times. In fact, today there are Mapuche political prisoners as a result of the most sophisticated policies to repress and persecute the autonomist movement, which with more strength has taken on the struggle against extractivism and for the reconstruction of our people, processes sustained with the recovery of territorial spaces, today mainly in the hand of the forestry companies.
As a prelude to the presentation of the agreements or the points of the Commission for Peace and Understanding, a real media campaign has been implemented in which the most fascist sectors of the Chilean right participate, obviously covered by the media that are at their service, where the discourse that demonizes the Mapuche cause is reinstated, condemning the violence exercised by communities for territorial recovery.
A discourse that reinstates the concepts of terrorism, rural violence, organized crime to delegitimize and depoliticize the just struggle for territory.
On the other hand, the idea of a supposed agreement for the return of lands is being installed in which there would be a huge amount of money that will be available for territorial reparation to the communities, which is part of the farce that we already know, because in fact this proposal is always diluted along the way and in the end ends up in squalid resources and in almost no viability of land return.
This is a constant under the legislation in force with the participation of CONADI, a rotten and functional organism of the capitalist state. There will only be money to repair the large landowners and to swell the coffers of the forestry companies, who make a big business with the financial speculation of the purchase and sale of the estates usurped from the communities.
Undoubtedly, a new political operation has been launched that tries to give strength and importance to a Commission that in reality has nothing to offer for the resolution of the conflict, because the confrontation is installed on structural, economic foundations, which imply the struggle of an oppressed native people against an invading colonial state and in the face of which there is already a process of struggle and resistance for the reconstruction of the the Mapuche Nation.
The current Mapuche struggle is and will be for territory and autonomy for the Mapuche Nation.
The struggle continues!!
Amulepe taiñ weichan !!
SOURCE: Werken Noticias
By Héctor Llaitul / Resumen Latinoamericano, May 4, 2025
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18946
#Autonomy #CAM #chile #HéctorLlaitul #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica #Wallmapu
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Mapuche Nation. Racist and Revanchist Authorities Denied Héctor Llaitul Transfer to Temuco Prison
The court prioritized security over family roots
When security outweighs family ties, the debate is served. The leader of the Arauco Malleco Coordinator (CAM), Héctor Llaitul, must continue serving his sentence in the Bío-Bío Penitentiary Center, in Concepción, after the Court of Guarantee of Concepción rejected his request to be transferred to the Temuco prison. The defense alleged reasons of family roots, mentioning that his partner lives in Chol-Chol and his mother in Osorno, but the court was not convinced.
The supervisory judgne Marcelo Bustos was in charge of the hearing and explained that the security criterion prevails, so Héctor Llaitul will continue to be held in the Bío-Bío Penitentiary Center.
A sentence of 23 years for crimes associated with rural violence and the State Security Law is not minor. In this context, the Gendarmerie lawyer was categorical: “The risk of escape and the dangerousness of Llaitul require a prison environment with extraordinary control measures” and stressed that the Temuco prison does not have the necessary conditions to keep an inmate considered highly dangerous like Llaitul.
According to reports, the jurist asked the court to declare itself incompetent, a request to which Judge Bustos did not agree.
The judicial response was as clear as it was perverse: institutional stability weighs more than affective connections.
As on a chessboard where each piece must occupy the place that minimizes risk, Llaitul will continue to be secluded far from his loved ones, but in an enclosure where the State feels safer.
5 most important facts:
- Héctor Llaitul is serving a 23-year sentence for rural violence and crimes against state security.
- His defense requested the transfer to Temuco for reasons of family roots.
- The Gendarmerie objected, alleging the inmate’s high danger and lack of conditions in Temuco.
- Judge Marcelo Bustos rejected the request, prioritizing security criteria.
- Llaitul will continue in the Bío-Bío prison, where he is already serving his sentence.
Resumen Latinoamericano, April 24, 2025
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18657
#chile #HéctorLlaitul #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica
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Mapuche Nation. Racist and Revanchist Authorities Denied Héctor Llaitul Transfer to Temuco Prison
The court prioritized security over family roots
When security outweighs family ties, the debate is served. The leader of the Arauco Malleco Coordinator (CAM), Héctor Llaitul, must continue serving his sentence in the Bío-Bío Penitentiary Center, in Concepción, after the Court of Guarantee of Concepción rejected his request to be transferred to the Temuco prison. The defense alleged reasons of family roots, mentioning that his partner lives in Chol-Chol and his mother in Osorno, but the court was not convinced.
The supervisory judgne Marcelo Bustos was in charge of the hearing and explained that the security criterion prevails, so Héctor Llaitul will continue to be held in the Bío-Bío Penitentiary Center.
A sentence of 23 years for crimes associated with rural violence and the State Security Law is not minor. In this context, the Gendarmerie lawyer was categorical: “The risk of escape and the dangerousness of Llaitul require a prison environment with extraordinary control measures” and stressed that the Temuco prison does not have the necessary conditions to keep an inmate considered highly dangerous like Llaitul.
According to reports, the jurist asked the court to declare itself incompetent, a request to which Judge Bustos did not agree.
The judicial response was as clear as it was perverse: institutional stability weighs more than affective connections.
As on a chessboard where each piece must occupy the place that minimizes risk, Llaitul will continue to be secluded far from his loved ones, but in an enclosure where the State feels safer.
5 most important facts:
- Héctor Llaitul is serving a 23-year sentence for rural violence and crimes against state security.
- His defense requested the transfer to Temuco for reasons of family roots.
- The Gendarmerie objected, alleging the inmate’s high danger and lack of conditions in Temuco.
- Judge Marcelo Bustos rejected the request, prioritizing security criteria.
- Llaitul will continue in the Bío-Bío prison, where he is already serving his sentence.
Resumen Latinoamericano, April 24, 2025
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18657
#chile #HéctorLlaitul #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica
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Temuco Court Ratifies Acquittal of 17 Mapuche Political Prisoners
The court ruled out malice, charged lack of evidence and reaffirmed that the conflict in the Angol prison was exaggerated: a new defeat for the set-up and criminalization of the Mapuche people.
The Court of Appeals of Temuco rejected on Tuesday the appeals for nullity filed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office and Gendarmerie of Chile, confirming the sentence handed down on February 7 by the Oral Criminal Court of Angol, which acquitted 17 Mapuche community members accused of the crime of aggravated kidnapping to the detriment of Gendarmerie personnel.
The ruling, which represents a new setback for the attempts at judicial criminalization against the Mapuche communities, ratifies the innocence of the community members, dismissing an unsubstantiated accusation that tried to transform a prison conflict into a criminal case of high political and media impact.
A disproportionate accusation
The events date back to May 2023, when a group of Mapuche prisoners from the communal module in the Angol prison were accused of having held gendarmes against their will who were trying to carry out a procedure to register visits. The prosecution argued that this alleged “retention” constituted a crime of aggravated kidnapping, a serious criminal offense, which carries high penalties.
From the outset, relatives and organizations denounced that it was a new attempt at judicial set-up, instrumentalized to deepen the criminalization of the Mapuche people in Wallmapu, in a context of permanent militarization and media stigmatization.
The ruling that dismantles the story
In its ruling (role 234-2025), the Third Chamber of the Court of Appeals of Temuco ruled out that the court of first instance had committed errors of law or had improperly evaluated the evidence.
“Having examined the judgment under appeal, this Court can find that (…) the Public Prosecutor’s Office could not determine the facts for which the defendants were accused,” the resolution states.
In addition, the appellate court emphasized that neither intent nor convergence of wills, essential elements to configure a kidnapping, were proven. On the contrary, it was found that the community members had no possibility of leaving the module, so the fact should never have been prosecuted.
Political prisoners and delayed justice
The 17 Mapuche people acquitted are: Juan Ignacio Cortés Penchulef, Simón Alejandro Huenchullán Millanao, Pedro Sebastián Palacios Cañuta, Juan Patricio Queipul Millanao, Jorge Froilán Palacios Cañuta, Ismael Elías Fritz Ñancul, Anthoni Luciano Torres Toro, Alejandro Andrés Liguén Venegas, Boris Mariano Llanca Nahuelpi, Joaquín Wenulef Huenchullán Queipul, Fabián Alejandro Llanca Nahuelpi, Hanthu Lemunthu Llanca Quidel, Miguel Ángel Torres Toro, Freddy Jonathan Marileo Marileo, Sergio Isaías Huentecol Melinao, Joaquín Ismael Millanao Queipul and Máximo Iván Queipul Huenchullán.
Of them, Sergio Huentecol was the only one convicted, but only for the crime of mistreatment of the gendarme, with a sentence of 61 days in prison.
The rest were acquitted of all charges, reaffirming that the core of the indictment — the alleged kidnapping — was a failed attempt to fabricate culprits.
The political and media background
As happened in other emblematic cases, such as that of the Tralcal cousins or Operation Hurricane, this case was massively publicized prior to the trial, promoted by right-wing parliamentarians and institutional spokespersons.
An attempt was made to install the image of a violent and radical group, without any evidence to support that narrative. The trial, however, once again highlighted how the judicial system is used as a tool for preventive punishment against indigenous peoples, through the use of prolonged pretrial detention, long processes, and oversized accusations.
A reflection from the defense
Asked about it, lawyer Javier Pineda Olcay, defender of several of the acquitted community members, reflected on the impact of this ruling:
“This sentence is important, because the Mapuche people face a process of permanent criminalization, and this ruling is an oasis in the desert. In this case, Gendarmerie personnel – with media support from right-wing parliamentarians in the area – tried to pass off a daily prison conflict as an attempted kidnapping, which was completely absurd. Fortunately, the court applied the law and decreed the acquittal. However, a greater challenge remains: that the courts always act in accordance with the law and do not continue to convict community members just because they are Mapuche.”
Source: https://www.elciudadano.com/chile/absolucion-presos-politicos-mapuche-corte-temuco/04/16/
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18470
#chile #indigenous #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica #temuco
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Temuco Court Ratifies Acquittal of 17 Mapuche Political Prisoners
The court ruled out malice, charged lack of evidence and reaffirmed that the conflict in the Angol prison was exaggerated: a new defeat for the set-up and criminalization of the Mapuche people.
The Court of Appeals of Temuco rejected on Tuesday the appeals for nullity filed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office and Gendarmerie of Chile, confirming the sentence handed down on February 7 by the Oral Criminal Court of Angol, which acquitted 17 Mapuche community members accused of the crime of aggravated kidnapping to the detriment of Gendarmerie personnel.
The ruling, which represents a new setback for the attempts at judicial criminalization against the Mapuche communities, ratifies the innocence of the community members, dismissing an unsubstantiated accusation that tried to transform a prison conflict into a criminal case of high political and media impact.
A disproportionate accusation
The events date back to May 2023, when a group of Mapuche prisoners from the communal module in the Angol prison were accused of having held gendarmes against their will who were trying to carry out a procedure to register visits. The prosecution argued that this alleged “retention” constituted a crime of aggravated kidnapping, a serious criminal offense, which carries high penalties.
From the outset, relatives and organizations denounced that it was a new attempt at judicial set-up, instrumentalized to deepen the criminalization of the Mapuche people in Wallmapu, in a context of permanent militarization and media stigmatization.
The ruling that dismantles the story
In its ruling (role 234-2025), the Third Chamber of the Court of Appeals of Temuco ruled out that the court of first instance had committed errors of law or had improperly evaluated the evidence.
“Having examined the judgment under appeal, this Court can find that (…) the Public Prosecutor’s Office could not determine the facts for which the defendants were accused,” the resolution states.
In addition, the appellate court emphasized that neither intent nor convergence of wills, essential elements to configure a kidnapping, were proven. On the contrary, it was found that the community members had no possibility of leaving the module, so the fact should never have been prosecuted.
Political prisoners and delayed justice
The 17 Mapuche people acquitted are: Juan Ignacio Cortés Penchulef, Simón Alejandro Huenchullán Millanao, Pedro Sebastián Palacios Cañuta, Juan Patricio Queipul Millanao, Jorge Froilán Palacios Cañuta, Ismael Elías Fritz Ñancul, Anthoni Luciano Torres Toro, Alejandro Andrés Liguén Venegas, Boris Mariano Llanca Nahuelpi, Joaquín Wenulef Huenchullán Queipul, Fabián Alejandro Llanca Nahuelpi, Hanthu Lemunthu Llanca Quidel, Miguel Ángel Torres Toro, Freddy Jonathan Marileo Marileo, Sergio Isaías Huentecol Melinao, Joaquín Ismael Millanao Queipul and Máximo Iván Queipul Huenchullán.
Of them, Sergio Huentecol was the only one convicted, but only for the crime of mistreatment of the gendarme, with a sentence of 61 days in prison.
The rest were acquitted of all charges, reaffirming that the core of the indictment — the alleged kidnapping — was a failed attempt to fabricate culprits.
The political and media background
As happened in other emblematic cases, such as that of the Tralcal cousins or Operation Hurricane, this case was massively publicized prior to the trial, promoted by right-wing parliamentarians and institutional spokespersons.
An attempt was made to install the image of a violent and radical group, without any evidence to support that narrative. The trial, however, once again highlighted how the judicial system is used as a tool for preventive punishment against indigenous peoples, through the use of prolonged pretrial detention, long processes, and oversized accusations.
A reflection from the defense
Asked about it, lawyer Javier Pineda Olcay, defender of several of the acquitted community members, reflected on the impact of this ruling:
“This sentence is important, because the Mapuche people face a process of permanent criminalization, and this ruling is an oasis in the desert. In this case, Gendarmerie personnel – with media support from right-wing parliamentarians in the area – tried to pass off a daily prison conflict as an attempted kidnapping, which was completely absurd. Fortunately, the court applied the law and decreed the acquittal. However, a greater challenge remains: that the courts always act in accordance with the law and do not continue to convict community members just because they are Mapuche.”
Source: https://www.elciudadano.com/chile/absolucion-presos-politicos-mapuche-corte-temuco/04/16/
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18470
#chile #indigenous #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica #temuco
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Communique by Mapuche Political Prisoners in Temuco Prison on Raids, Beatings and Transfers
In the face of raids, brutal beatings and unjustified transfers, Mapuche Political Prisoners in the Temuco prison charge that these events are part of a broader strategy that seeks to dismantle the existing community modules in Chilean prisons.
“PUBLIC STATEMENT BY MAPUCHE POLITICAL PRISONERS, CCP TEMUCO COMMUNITY MODULE
The Mapuche political prisoners held in the Temuco prison salute our traditional authorities, Pu Lonko, Pu Werken and Pu Machi, as well as the communities in resistance, and declare the following:
On Monday, March 31, at approximately 10:30 a.m., we were violently raided in the first instance by officials of this penal facility, who were later reinforced by personnel of the U.S.E.P.
As a result of this act, innumerable damages were caused, such as the destruction of furniture, the theft of sporting goods, the arbitrary and excessive use of tear gas, and various physical and verbal aggressions (verbatim words of Lieutenant Martínez and Sergeant Ramírez: “Indios Culiaos, Indios Perkines”).
The most affected peñi was Rodrigo Cáseres Salamanca, who underwent surgery on his right arm less than six months ago and is still in the process of rehabilitation. However, this was not an impediment for the Gendarmerie officials, who continued with the beating without any consideration.
Despite their state of health, the Peñi Rodrigo Cáseres Salamanca, Patricio Queipul and Anthu Llanca were transferred to three different prisons: Angol, Valdivia and Concepción. Where they were sent to maximum security modules, without the right to TV or radio, with a regime of 22 hours of solitary confinement, and 2 hours of courtyard.
It should be noted that the latter two were recently acquitted of a set-up orchestrated by the Gendarmerie of the Angol prison.
We see with this as a first conclusion that the orchestrators of the raid were: the recently transferred Lieutenant Hernández from the concessioned prison of Concepción, who on Monday, March 31, occupied the position of deputy warden, the operational chief of the OSI Mijail Morales, the non-commissioned officer Martínez and Sergeant Ramírez, directed and protected by Néstor Flores, regional director of the gendarmerie.
It is evident that what happened is part of a provocative maneuver directed against the Mapuche political prisoners, and we know that this is only one piece of a broader strategy that seeks to dismantle the existing modules of community members in the Chilean prisons located in our Wallmapu.
This intention is clearly demonstrated by the modifications in the internal regime that will be implemented arbitrarily, without prior notice and under the direction of Lieutenant Hernández. Added to this is the daily harassment to which we are subjected, which is manifested through sanctions that are not officially recorded, which rather respond to racist attributions on the part of Gendarmerie officials.
This strategy is also supported by the entire political class, which acts at the service of business interests, the gendarmerie is nothing more than a puppet institution of political interests and the business community.
We demand that our status as Mapuche political prisoners be respected, as well as our culture, social practices and worldview. Ratified by ILO Convention 169.
From the political prisoners module of the Temuco prison, we call for solidarity with the peñi transferred to the prisons of Angol, Valdivia and Concepción.
In addition, we urge to be alert to the repressive and offensive maneuvers directed against the Mapuche political prisoners modules and the eventual mobilizations that may arise.
Immediate transfers of Rodrigo Caseres Salamanca, Patricio Queipul Millanao and Anthu Llanca Quidel to the CCP Temuko community module.
Freedom for All Mapuche Political Prisoners.
For unity in the Weichan
Presos Políticos Mapuche CCP Temuko.»
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18109
#chile #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica #Wallmapu
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Communique by Mapuche Political Prisoners in Temuco Prison on Raids, Beatings and Transfers
In the face of raids, brutal beatings and unjustified transfers, Mapuche Political Prisoners in the Temuco prison charge that these events are part of a broader strategy that seeks to dismantle the existing community modules in Chilean prisons.
“PUBLIC STATEMENT BY MAPUCHE POLITICAL PRISONERS, CCP TEMUCO COMMUNITY MODULE
The Mapuche political prisoners held in the Temuco prison salute our traditional authorities, Pu Lonko, Pu Werken and Pu Machi, as well as the communities in resistance, and declare the following:
On Monday, March 31, at approximately 10:30 a.m., we were violently raided in the first instance by officials of this penal facility, who were later reinforced by personnel of the U.S.E.P.
As a result of this act, innumerable damages were caused, such as the destruction of furniture, the theft of sporting goods, the arbitrary and excessive use of tear gas, and various physical and verbal aggressions (verbatim words of Lieutenant Martínez and Sergeant Ramírez: “Indios Culiaos, Indios Perkines”).
The most affected peñi was Rodrigo Cáseres Salamanca, who underwent surgery on his right arm less than six months ago and is still in the process of rehabilitation. However, this was not an impediment for the Gendarmerie officials, who continued with the beating without any consideration.
Despite their state of health, the Peñi Rodrigo Cáseres Salamanca, Patricio Queipul and Anthu Llanca were transferred to three different prisons: Angol, Valdivia and Concepción. Where they were sent to maximum security modules, without the right to TV or radio, with a regime of 22 hours of solitary confinement, and 2 hours of courtyard.
It should be noted that the latter two were recently acquitted of a set-up orchestrated by the Gendarmerie of the Angol prison.
We see with this as a first conclusion that the orchestrators of the raid were: the recently transferred Lieutenant Hernández from the concessioned prison of Concepción, who on Monday, March 31, occupied the position of deputy warden, the operational chief of the OSI Mijail Morales, the non-commissioned officer Martínez and Sergeant Ramírez, directed and protected by Néstor Flores, regional director of the gendarmerie.
It is evident that what happened is part of a provocative maneuver directed against the Mapuche political prisoners, and we know that this is only one piece of a broader strategy that seeks to dismantle the existing modules of community members in the Chilean prisons located in our Wallmapu.
This intention is clearly demonstrated by the modifications in the internal regime that will be implemented arbitrarily, without prior notice and under the direction of Lieutenant Hernández. Added to this is the daily harassment to which we are subjected, which is manifested through sanctions that are not officially recorded, which rather respond to racist attributions on the part of Gendarmerie officials.
This strategy is also supported by the entire political class, which acts at the service of business interests, the gendarmerie is nothing more than a puppet institution of political interests and the business community.
We demand that our status as Mapuche political prisoners be respected, as well as our culture, social practices and worldview. Ratified by ILO Convention 169.
From the political prisoners module of the Temuco prison, we call for solidarity with the peñi transferred to the prisons of Angol, Valdivia and Concepción.
In addition, we urge to be alert to the repressive and offensive maneuvers directed against the Mapuche political prisoners modules and the eventual mobilizations that may arise.
Immediate transfers of Rodrigo Caseres Salamanca, Patricio Queipul Millanao and Anthu Llanca Quidel to the CCP Temuko community module.
Freedom for All Mapuche Political Prisoners.
For unity in the Weichan
Presos Políticos Mapuche CCP Temuko.»
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18109
#chile #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica #Wallmapu
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Mapuche Nation. 100 Years of Punishment for a Young Weichafe: Another Revenge of the Chilean State
Pelentaro Llaitul, my son, is being prosecuted for a series of events that are part of what is the territorial and political claim carried out by the Mapuche Nation people.
His trial, which is currently in the process of preparation, begins in June 2025 after more than 2 years of preventive detention, a case where we are once again in the presence of a judicial process full of racism, prejudice and bias with implications of political persecution. It is undoubtedly a trial that demonstrates once again the position of the Chilean State, the oppressive Chilean institutionality, against the process of struggle carried out by the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco, the CAM.
It is the so-called “Lautaro Case”, of resistance actions against the forestry industry in which several militants of the Mapuche cause, including my son, are artificially involved. A case where a new situation of improper process is already observed, since this judicial case together with the presence of protected witnesses, the lack of concrete and scientific evidence, adds the argumentative fallacy on the part of the prosecution, which indicates that the pu peñi (brothers) were arrested in flagrante delicto, in circumstances that they were arrested many kilometers away from the scene of the events and in an area where another process is taking place of territorial recovery, and where there is a strong ascendant militant insertion of each of them in that Mapuche Nagche territory.
For this reason, the procedural situation is complex and unfair. First, because one of the weichafe prosecuted is my son, which shows a kind of cruelty against my children for the role I have been playing in the autonomy struggle. And on the other hand, the contribution and meaning that the Mapuche youth have had in the concrete struggle. Certainly, Pelentaro’s participation in the Mapuche cause has been very significant not only because of his selfless dedication that gives new energy and freshness to the liberation process, but also because throughout his life, his participation has to be an example for young weichafe to follow.
Pelentaro Llaitul, is one of my youngest sons, he has a lifetime of being involved in the struggle for the historic territorial and political claims of our organization. From a very young age he has participated in this process, becoming at a very early age, an outstanding militant of the Mapuche cause. Fulfilling very specific roles within what is our world and the culture of our people, what are the socio-political and cultural implications of the communities in reconstitution, the lof, and in the Mapuche autonomist and revolutionary movement in general. Thus he became purrufe, curiche, palife and an outstanding weichafe. It is in this framework of outstanding cultural and political participation that he had to fulfill a very important function in the organization, which earned him hatred and persecution by our historical enemies, today represented by the forestry companies and the fascists who attack Wallmapu.
We are in the presence of a new act of directed political persecution and that today is part of a political decision on the part of this specific government, an action of revenge and cruelty against Pelentaro, because beyond being my son, the State intends to achieve a mockery of the new generations of fighters.
With this action, the Chilean State portrays itself as giving an account of the de facto repressive and punitive action against the Mapuche that is applied by the current administrators of justice in Chile, by the current ruling political class and that is carried out by the courts that have historically acted in a racist and intolerant way against our people. This is the reason that explains the bitterness that is reflected and translated into the Lautaro Case where the prosecution is asking for 70 years in prison and this government of Gabriel Boric is requesting 100 years in prison against Pelentaro via complaint. Moreover, aggravating the situation and not satisfied with the above, my son is being formalized again for another cause, in which he also risks many years of political imprisonment, in circumstances that at that time he was a minor.
It is for this reason that we can affirm without fear of equivocation that we are in the presence of an emblematic act of political persecution, where this government in particular wants to install an example of derision and teaching against one of the most consistent Mapuche youth. With this action, the current government contradicts the entire supposed position of human rights and justice for the Mapuche that it shouts so much and that is reflected in absurd peace commissions, revealing the true position towards the native peoples, which is to repress the resistance of the communities at all costs.
Without a doubt, we are in the presence of a new action that portrays this government in its most racist, intolerant and punitive facet that has been seen in recent decades, and which currently has more than 100 Mapuche political prisoners in Chilean state prisons. Because, discrimination and political persecution against the Mapuche who are willing to fight for territorial and historical political claims are and will be repressed without contemplation to safeguard the interests of the powerful.
I am currently a prisoner in a Chilean state prison, but I must continue to denounce injustices and from my role as werken of a Mapuche autonomist organization that is still in force. Especially because this case, in which my son and other young weichafe have been involved, has not had the proper media coverage, which has allowed there to be abuse on the part of the Prosecutor’s Office and the courts, and where due process is imposed in all its magnitude.
Another reason for making this specific denunciation, and which obliges me to disseminate it in the alternative and foreign media, is because the official press, the bourgeois press, covers the facts in a tendentious and malicious way, creating the conditions for the racist action of the oppressive institutions and where the courts and the political police of the State have not only criminalized our struggle but also mount operations and are vicious against the most outstanding weichafe of our people.
It is in this framework that we extend the denunciation against the media that are supposedly alternative and that were pro-Mapuche cause, and that soon ended up selling themselves to power, that were not only co-opted by the current governance as is the case of the newspaper El Ciudadano, El Mostrador, The Clinic who are accomplices with their silence or omission of these dirty intelligence operations. Because only in this way can it be understood why they do not cover or make these cases invisible and only cover supposed demands that are framed in lowly and submissive positions. It is, in the final analysis, a pseudo-progressive press at the service of the model of injustices.
Finally, we continue to reaffirm the profound significance of our struggle in recent times, and where, given the achievements of the autonomist movement, the contradictions between the Mapuche people and the Chilean State have become more acute. Because our struggle has positioned itself in anti-capitalist and anti-colonial definitions that have mostly clearly confronted the interests of big capital. The struggle for territory and freedom does not compromise. It is in this context that there is greater repression on the part of the current government, and that generates the conditions for a new fascist offensive of the Chilean right that is already attacking with great force in historic Wallmapu.
Finally, and a not insignificant piece of information at the last minute, my son Pelentaro Llaitul is currently awaiting the trial, which was set for 39 days from June 24. And that one of the judges that the court ordered for the drafting of the sentence in that process, is Judge Jorge González Salazar, the same one who convicted me without evidence in a case that is currently in international headquarters for various violations of rights that occurred in the process. In principle, this judge had not been appointed, however, a day after the court was formed, one of the 3 judges was changed to leave González Salazar, a recognized anti-Mapuche. It should also be remembered that this judge was the same one who convicted several Mapuche leaders as in the Lonkos Case, for which the Chilean State was condemned internationally due to the way in which Mapuche social protest was criminalized. This new fact clearly illustrates how justice works in the ancestral territory. A justice system at the service of the powerful and that acts under pressure and mandate from the ruling political class.
For territory and autonomy for the Mapuche Nation !!
Out with the forestry companies from the Wallmapu!!
Weuwaiñ
Héctor Llaitul
(*) This column was published by the French newspaper Les 2 Rives
Resumen Latinoamericano, March 5, 2025
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17356
#CAM #chile #HéctorLlaitul #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica
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Mapuche Nation. 100 Years of Punishment for a Young Weichafe: Another Revenge of the Chilean State
Pelentaro Llaitul, my son, is being prosecuted for a series of events that are part of what is the territorial and political claim carried out by the Mapuche Nation people.
His trial, which is currently in the process of preparation, begins in June 2025 after more than 2 years of preventive detention, a case where we are once again in the presence of a judicial process full of racism, prejudice and bias with implications of political persecution. It is undoubtedly a trial that demonstrates once again the position of the Chilean State, the oppressive Chilean institutionality, against the process of struggle carried out by the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco, the CAM.
It is the so-called “Lautaro Case”, of resistance actions against the forestry industry in which several militants of the Mapuche cause, including my son, are artificially involved. A case where a new situation of improper process is already observed, since this judicial case together with the presence of protected witnesses, the lack of concrete and scientific evidence, adds the argumentative fallacy on the part of the prosecution, which indicates that the pu peñi (brothers) were arrested in flagrante delicto, in circumstances that they were arrested many kilometers away from the scene of the events and in an area where another process is taking place of territorial recovery, and where there is a strong ascendant militant insertion of each of them in that Mapuche Nagche territory.
For this reason, the procedural situation is complex and unfair. First, because one of the weichafe prosecuted is my son, which shows a kind of cruelty against my children for the role I have been playing in the autonomy struggle. And on the other hand, the contribution and meaning that the Mapuche youth have had in the concrete struggle. Certainly, Pelentaro’s participation in the Mapuche cause has been very significant not only because of his selfless dedication that gives new energy and freshness to the liberation process, but also because throughout his life, his participation has to be an example for young weichafe to follow.
Pelentaro Llaitul, is one of my youngest sons, he has a lifetime of being involved in the struggle for the historic territorial and political claims of our organization. From a very young age he has participated in this process, becoming at a very early age, an outstanding militant of the Mapuche cause. Fulfilling very specific roles within what is our world and the culture of our people, what are the socio-political and cultural implications of the communities in reconstitution, the lof, and in the Mapuche autonomist and revolutionary movement in general. Thus he became purrufe, curiche, palife and an outstanding weichafe. It is in this framework of outstanding cultural and political participation that he had to fulfill a very important function in the organization, which earned him hatred and persecution by our historical enemies, today represented by the forestry companies and the fascists who attack Wallmapu.
We are in the presence of a new act of directed political persecution and that today is part of a political decision on the part of this specific government, an action of revenge and cruelty against Pelentaro, because beyond being my son, the State intends to achieve a mockery of the new generations of fighters.
With this action, the Chilean State portrays itself as giving an account of the de facto repressive and punitive action against the Mapuche that is applied by the current administrators of justice in Chile, by the current ruling political class and that is carried out by the courts that have historically acted in a racist and intolerant way against our people. This is the reason that explains the bitterness that is reflected and translated into the Lautaro Case where the prosecution is asking for 70 years in prison and this government of Gabriel Boric is requesting 100 years in prison against Pelentaro via complaint. Moreover, aggravating the situation and not satisfied with the above, my son is being formalized again for another cause, in which he also risks many years of political imprisonment, in circumstances that at that time he was a minor.
It is for this reason that we can affirm without fear of equivocation that we are in the presence of an emblematic act of political persecution, where this government in particular wants to install an example of derision and teaching against one of the most consistent Mapuche youth. With this action, the current government contradicts the entire supposed position of human rights and justice for the Mapuche that it shouts so much and that is reflected in absurd peace commissions, revealing the true position towards the native peoples, which is to repress the resistance of the communities at all costs.
Without a doubt, we are in the presence of a new action that portrays this government in its most racist, intolerant and punitive facet that has been seen in recent decades, and which currently has more than 100 Mapuche political prisoners in Chilean state prisons. Because, discrimination and political persecution against the Mapuche who are willing to fight for territorial and historical political claims are and will be repressed without contemplation to safeguard the interests of the powerful.
I am currently a prisoner in a Chilean state prison, but I must continue to denounce injustices and from my role as werken of a Mapuche autonomist organization that is still in force. Especially because this case, in which my son and other young weichafe have been involved, has not had the proper media coverage, which has allowed there to be abuse on the part of the Prosecutor’s Office and the courts, and where due process is imposed in all its magnitude.
Another reason for making this specific denunciation, and which obliges me to disseminate it in the alternative and foreign media, is because the official press, the bourgeois press, covers the facts in a tendentious and malicious way, creating the conditions for the racist action of the oppressive institutions and where the courts and the political police of the State have not only criminalized our struggle but also mount operations and are vicious against the most outstanding weichafe of our people.
It is in this framework that we extend the denunciation against the media that are supposedly alternative and that were pro-Mapuche cause, and that soon ended up selling themselves to power, that were not only co-opted by the current governance as is the case of the newspaper El Ciudadano, El Mostrador, The Clinic who are accomplices with their silence or omission of these dirty intelligence operations. Because only in this way can it be understood why they do not cover or make these cases invisible and only cover supposed demands that are framed in lowly and submissive positions. It is, in the final analysis, a pseudo-progressive press at the service of the model of injustices.
Finally, we continue to reaffirm the profound significance of our struggle in recent times, and where, given the achievements of the autonomist movement, the contradictions between the Mapuche people and the Chilean State have become more acute. Because our struggle has positioned itself in anti-capitalist and anti-colonial definitions that have mostly clearly confronted the interests of big capital. The struggle for territory and freedom does not compromise. It is in this context that there is greater repression on the part of the current government, and that generates the conditions for a new fascist offensive of the Chilean right that is already attacking with great force in historic Wallmapu.
Finally, and a not insignificant piece of information at the last minute, my son Pelentaro Llaitul is currently awaiting the trial, which was set for 39 days from June 24. And that one of the judges that the court ordered for the drafting of the sentence in that process, is Judge Jorge González Salazar, the same one who convicted me without evidence in a case that is currently in international headquarters for various violations of rights that occurred in the process. In principle, this judge had not been appointed, however, a day after the court was formed, one of the 3 judges was changed to leave González Salazar, a recognized anti-Mapuche. It should also be remembered that this judge was the same one who convicted several Mapuche leaders as in the Lonkos Case, for which the Chilean State was condemned internationally due to the way in which Mapuche social protest was criminalized. This new fact clearly illustrates how justice works in the ancestral territory. A justice system at the service of the powerful and that acts under pressure and mandate from the ruling political class.
For territory and autonomy for the Mapuche Nation !!
Out with the forestry companies from the Wallmapu!!
Weuwaiñ
Héctor Llaitul
(*) This column was published by the French newspaper Les 2 Rives
Resumen Latinoamericano, March 5, 2025
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17356
#CAM #chile #HéctorLlaitul #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica
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Nous résistons parce que nous refusons de disparaître en tant que peuple nation mapuche. Par Héctor Llaitul
#Mapuche #chile #DondeEstaJuliaChuñil
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Nous résistons parce que nous refusons de disparaître en tant que peuple nation mapuche. Par Héctor Llaitul
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Nous résistons parce que nous refusons de disparaître en tant que peuple nation mapuche. Par Héctor Llaitul
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Nous résistons parce que nous refusons de disparaître en tant que peuple nation mapuche. Par Héctor Llaitul
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Triunfo histórico: Comunidades mapuche de Villarrica logran fallo en la Suprema contra piscicultura salmonera contaminante
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Triunfo histórico: Comunidades mapuche de Villarrica logran fallo en la Suprema contra piscicultura salmonera contaminante
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Triunfo histórico: Comunidades mapuche de Villarrica logran fallo en la Suprema contra piscicultura salmonera contaminante
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Héctor Llaitul: “The Current Government Has Become More and More Functional and Servile to the Interests of the Great Capital”
Héctor Llaitul, leader of the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM), sentenced to 23 years in prison under the Chilean anti -terrorism law, in writing and through a visit, offers a deep look on their personal situation, the Mapuche resistance and the fight for the Territorial autonomy. Llaitul addresses issues ranging from political prison and violations of the rights of Mapuche political prisoners, to the repressive policies of the current government and the impact of these on the Mapuche communities. Through their words, they emerge not only forceful criticisms of the Chilean political and judicial system, but also a reaffirmation of the commitment to the Mapuche cause and its worldview. This look allows us to understand the complexities of a historical conflict that remains in force.
How do you describe your experience in this new political prison and the impact of this sentence in your life and in the fight of the Mapuche people?
The first thing is to point out is that this was a political condemnation and therefore it must be assumed according to the degree of consciousness and politicization that our struggle has reached, which has been undertaken from the autonomist Mapuche movement. And by the way, political prison must be assumed under a context of greater adversity, because with the current government this fighting process has become more complex and adverse since it has demonstrated its decision to keep the neoliberal model with the Extractivist policies throughout Mapuche ancestral territoriality, thus exacerbating confrontation on the basis of the increase in militarization, criminalization and persecution of the most consistent expressions with the line of territorial and political struggle. And it is in this framework that we must also endure harassment and repression within prisons who embrace the revolutionary struggle more strongly. The impact has been greater and is a consequence of the neo-fascist offensive that is reinstated on Wallmapu. We resist in a land of greater threat and punishment towards the Mapuche militants. Today the imprisoned Weichafe must sustain with greater force and rigor the onslaught of racist institutionality. Under this government, many Mapuche have been imprisoned and some are subjected, under Gendarmerie policy, to the violation of our rights, based on the act of keeping us as common prisoners and far from our ancestral territoriality.
What message do you seek to convey with your book “written from jail” and what role you expect to play in the fight for the rights of the Mapuche people?
The message we want to deliver with the book is more than anything of breath and reaffirmation, and this is somehow related to what was said above since its elaboration was in very adverse conditions of political prison, when I assumed hunger strikes and endured punishments for my fighting attitude. It is a publication that occurs in a context in which we are still monitored and repressed only for maintaining our convictions, denying all our political and cultural rights as Mapuche political prisoners. We also want to demonstrate that despite being prisoners we will maintain the line and unalterable principles, and thus contribute to the fighting process being maintained in what is its broader scope. That is, it is our contribution as militants of the Mapuche revolutionary cause that are imprisoned today that we remain firm in the great process for Mapuche national reconstruction.
By the way, it is a message based on our rakiduam with analysis and reflections regarding how we the Mapuche must assume the new political and cultural challenges especially in a context in which the current government has become increasingly transformed into functional and servile to the interests of the great capital, thus raising the way for a new offensive of the most recalcitrant right in this country. It is important to reaffirm in turn that assuming the political prison and writing implies being part of the story of those who fight, and it is a way of denouncing and accounting for the violation of our rights, which had previously been achieved and that allow us to respect our culture and identity, and that are related to our status as Mapuche community members. Because it is not only about human rights, it is about respect for the cultural rights of an original people. In fact, the segregated modules for Mapuche were achieved with mobilization and struggle of prisoners, their relatives and communities, and which at the time had international support, based on ILO Convention 169.
The current situation is different because with the current administration all the rights of Mapuche political prisoners are violated. The treatment that is given to us is as criminals and delinquents, forcing us to be in high security enclosures and in modules with common prisoners with all that that entails in terms of security and exposure to racism and bad treatment in general. In this sense, what affects us most is the violation of our cultural rights in its broadest sense, because racism and intolerance is at all levels and is part of the structural violence of the Chilean State.
Your family has announced that they will resort to international organizations to demand your release. What is your opinion about this strategy and what expectations do you have?
Indeed my family and communities we will resort to international instances for my case, especially since I suffered a conviction that is eminently political in regard to the use of the State Security Law and crimes associated with this legal interpretation, in addition to faults to due process. With my defense – a team of lawyers – we are going to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights IACH, and in turn we will also go to Human Bodies linked to the United Nations, this within the framework of the complaint about the criminalization of the Mapuche case and of the persecution that we are subject to as Mapuche leaders. We are going to undertake these actions, because we do not obtain justice by the Chilean courts who have acted and operated symptomatically with what is colonialism and the deepest racism that still sustains institutionality, which we define as oppressor of the Native peoples. These actions will also allow us to give visibility to our struggle, which we consider absolutely legitimate and fair, thus appealing to international solidarity with the Mapuche cause.
How do you evaluate the relationship between the government of Gabriel Boric and the Mapuche communities, especially in the context of the state of exception and the repression denounced?
The evaluation that we make of the relationship of this government with our people and with the Mapuche communities in struggle, particularly those that are mobilizing for the recovery of their lands, has been deplorable, is a relationship of greater confrontation and violence. Especially when our territorial struggle collides with the interests of the great capital of this country. We can affirm that it is one of the worst experiences that we have had within the framework of the historical conflict in recent times. The state of exception, the increase of military and the members of special forces and police in conflict areas demonstrate it. It is a militarization policy that we had not seen before, as well as the increase in criminalization and persecution against the struggle processes carried out by communities. Undoubtedly, this has increased tension, violence and confrontation with the state of Chile and with the capitalist system of extractivist base that sweeps our ancestral territories.
This is a government that at first defined itself as leftist and progressive but that has gradually subsumed itself to the system of domination and has tried to maintain the bourgeois neoliberal model, which is why it has functioned in a servile and lowly manner in the face of the interests of the large economic groups. For this reason, with this imposed reality we visualize a more adverse situation for the Mapuche autonomist movement that fights for territorial recovery to base our autonomist liberation proposal. We reiterate again and affirm that with the current government the historical conflict has been sharpened because it is not only based on the application of more repressive policies against the movement in struggle, but by the farce in which its alleged instances of dialogue has been transformed, as of the Commission for Peace and Understanding. An initiative that arises and is installed with the sole objective of using and manipulating the co-opted and functional Mapuche sectors to the system, an instance that has resulted in a failure and that constitutes a new mockery for the Mapuche movement in general.
As a synthesis we can affirm that with the Boric government not only a false flag has been installed with its dialog conditions for increasing repression mainly towards land recovery processes, and that in a certain way reinstates extermination policies that we suffer in the last century. Therefore, we affirm that we suffer a new occupation. Perhaps what portrays this government most is its attitude and decision to prosecute the Mapuche autonomist movement, which is registered in the active prosecutors and judges who have green light for this purpose, committing all kinds of procedural and police injustices against our fighting expressions. Today there are more than one hundred Mapuche prisoners in the prisons of the Chilean State.
What advances has the CAM achieved in the recovery of territories and how does it visualize the future of this fight against repressive policies?
From our perspective, we can affirm that we have made substantial advances in what is the recovery of the territory and this is the reason why there has been an increase in repressive policies against mainly the autonomist movement. And in this sense, we can categorically affirm that the recovery of the land has been, mainly, against forestry that are our historical enemy. Since this new reality is that the historical conflict has been exacerbated, because the post-dictatorship governments and this one specifically have put themselves on the side of the powerful, of the rich in the confrontation with our people. These advances allow us to carry out, in some way, our political project of national reconstruction, which is precisely what the state institutionality does not want, is what the fascists of the right do not want, so they have made the decision to repress with greater force the various processes of Mapuche reaffirmation and resistance. It is a fact that reactionary expressions and fascist forces that historically operate in the territory have the approval of the current administration, have the approval of a type of neoliberal governance, in which repressive policies that are increasingly more sophisticated and elaborate try to eliminate and atomize the movement of struggle.
In a context of political persecution, how is Mapuche worldview strengthened as the central axis of resistance and the construction of territorial autonomy?
In a context of greater criminalization of the Mapuche cause and the increase in militarization throughout the Wallmapu, we have opted to maintain resistance with the strengthening of the struggle, which is why we have to strengthen our Mapuche Kimun, our Mapuche Rakiduam, that is, our worldview and culture of our Mapuche nation people. These efforts link us to the entire Mapuche movement in general and has become the central axis of the resistance and reconstruction of our people and are the strategic bases that we as an organization, as Coordinadora Arauco Malleco CAM, we propose.
This is the recovery and defense of the ancestral territory, of the defense of our ItrofillMongen, which would mean the defense of all lives in the Mapuche world. This is the restoration of the communities – of the LOF – based on a proposal to reorganize communities so that the large autonomous territories can be rebuilt butalmapu and ultimately the Wallmapu. It is the recovery and defense of the wallontumapu, of a very diverse and rich world in the cultural, values and ideology, where our own idiosyncratic aspects have a lot of sense and reason for what our Mapuche nation is.
In the current stage of the struggle it is to slowly transform the reality to which they force us to live, and turn this reality into what our ancestors bequeathed. We call this, to get involved and continue fighting in the great reconstruction process of our nation people. We know that there are many diverse contributions, not only from the resistance with the Weichan, but of contributions from the Mapuche that implies understanding and assuming a political project of the size that we embrace from the CAM. It is what we have been raising from the different trenches that we have to assume. Therefore, our people have always strengthened with more and greater ceremonies which in turn strengthen our spiritual forces, everything related to the world of pullu. Which are the fundamental elements in our project.
Source: Clarin.cl
Resumen Latinoamericano, 16 January, 2025https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=13771
#CAM #chile #HéctorLlaitul #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica
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Héctor Llaitul: “The Current Government Has Become More and More Functional and Servile to the Interests of the Great Capital”
Héctor Llaitul, leader of the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM), sentenced to 23 years in prison under the Chilean anti -terrorism law, in writing and through a visit, offers a deep look on their personal situation, the Mapuche resistance and the fight for the Territorial autonomy. Llaitul addresses issues ranging from political prison and violations of the rights of Mapuche political prisoners, to the repressive policies of the current government and the impact of these on the Mapuche communities. Through their words, they emerge not only forceful criticisms of the Chilean political and judicial system, but also a reaffirmation of the commitment to the Mapuche cause and its worldview. This look allows us to understand the complexities of a historical conflict that remains in force.
How do you describe your experience in this new political prison and the impact of this sentence in your life and in the fight of the Mapuche people?
The first thing is to point out is that this was a political condemnation and therefore it must be assumed according to the degree of consciousness and politicization that our struggle has reached, which has been undertaken from the autonomist Mapuche movement. And by the way, political prison must be assumed under a context of greater adversity, because with the current government this fighting process has become more complex and adverse since it has demonstrated its decision to keep the neoliberal model with the Extractivist policies throughout Mapuche ancestral territoriality, thus exacerbating confrontation on the basis of the increase in militarization, criminalization and persecution of the most consistent expressions with the line of territorial and political struggle. And it is in this framework that we must also endure harassment and repression within prisons who embrace the revolutionary struggle more strongly. The impact has been greater and is a consequence of the neo-fascist offensive that is reinstated on Wallmapu. We resist in a land of greater threat and punishment towards the Mapuche militants. Today the imprisoned Weichafe must sustain with greater force and rigor the onslaught of racist institutionality. Under this government, many Mapuche have been imprisoned and some are subjected, under Gendarmerie policy, to the violation of our rights, based on the act of keeping us as common prisoners and far from our ancestral territoriality.
What message do you seek to convey with your book “written from jail” and what role you expect to play in the fight for the rights of the Mapuche people?
The message we want to deliver with the book is more than anything of breath and reaffirmation, and this is somehow related to what was said above since its elaboration was in very adverse conditions of political prison, when I assumed hunger strikes and endured punishments for my fighting attitude. It is a publication that occurs in a context in which we are still monitored and repressed only for maintaining our convictions, denying all our political and cultural rights as Mapuche political prisoners. We also want to demonstrate that despite being prisoners we will maintain the line and unalterable principles, and thus contribute to the fighting process being maintained in what is its broader scope. That is, it is our contribution as militants of the Mapuche revolutionary cause that are imprisoned today that we remain firm in the great process for Mapuche national reconstruction.
By the way, it is a message based on our rakiduam with analysis and reflections regarding how we the Mapuche must assume the new political and cultural challenges especially in a context in which the current government has become increasingly transformed into functional and servile to the interests of the great capital, thus raising the way for a new offensive of the most recalcitrant right in this country. It is important to reaffirm in turn that assuming the political prison and writing implies being part of the story of those who fight, and it is a way of denouncing and accounting for the violation of our rights, which had previously been achieved and that allow us to respect our culture and identity, and that are related to our status as Mapuche community members. Because it is not only about human rights, it is about respect for the cultural rights of an original people. In fact, the segregated modules for Mapuche were achieved with mobilization and struggle of prisoners, their relatives and communities, and which at the time had international support, based on ILO Convention 169.
The current situation is different because with the current administration all the rights of Mapuche political prisoners are violated. The treatment that is given to us is as criminals and delinquents, forcing us to be in high security enclosures and in modules with common prisoners with all that that entails in terms of security and exposure to racism and bad treatment in general. In this sense, what affects us most is the violation of our cultural rights in its broadest sense, because racism and intolerance is at all levels and is part of the structural violence of the Chilean State.
Your family has announced that they will resort to international organizations to demand your release. What is your opinion about this strategy and what expectations do you have?
Indeed my family and communities we will resort to international instances for my case, especially since I suffered a conviction that is eminently political in regard to the use of the State Security Law and crimes associated with this legal interpretation, in addition to faults to due process. With my defense – a team of lawyers – we are going to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights IACH, and in turn we will also go to Human Bodies linked to the United Nations, this within the framework of the complaint about the criminalization of the Mapuche case and of the persecution that we are subject to as Mapuche leaders. We are going to undertake these actions, because we do not obtain justice by the Chilean courts who have acted and operated symptomatically with what is colonialism and the deepest racism that still sustains institutionality, which we define as oppressor of the Native peoples. These actions will also allow us to give visibility to our struggle, which we consider absolutely legitimate and fair, thus appealing to international solidarity with the Mapuche cause.
How do you evaluate the relationship between the government of Gabriel Boric and the Mapuche communities, especially in the context of the state of exception and the repression denounced?
The evaluation that we make of the relationship of this government with our people and with the Mapuche communities in struggle, particularly those that are mobilizing for the recovery of their lands, has been deplorable, is a relationship of greater confrontation and violence. Especially when our territorial struggle collides with the interests of the great capital of this country. We can affirm that it is one of the worst experiences that we have had within the framework of the historical conflict in recent times. The state of exception, the increase of military and the members of special forces and police in conflict areas demonstrate it. It is a militarization policy that we had not seen before, as well as the increase in criminalization and persecution against the struggle processes carried out by communities. Undoubtedly, this has increased tension, violence and confrontation with the state of Chile and with the capitalist system of extractivist base that sweeps our ancestral territories.
This is a government that at first defined itself as leftist and progressive but that has gradually subsumed itself to the system of domination and has tried to maintain the bourgeois neoliberal model, which is why it has functioned in a servile and lowly manner in the face of the interests of the large economic groups. For this reason, with this imposed reality we visualize a more adverse situation for the Mapuche autonomist movement that fights for territorial recovery to base our autonomist liberation proposal. We reiterate again and affirm that with the current government the historical conflict has been sharpened because it is not only based on the application of more repressive policies against the movement in struggle, but by the farce in which its alleged instances of dialogue has been transformed, as of the Commission for Peace and Understanding. An initiative that arises and is installed with the sole objective of using and manipulating the co-opted and functional Mapuche sectors to the system, an instance that has resulted in a failure and that constitutes a new mockery for the Mapuche movement in general.
As a synthesis we can affirm that with the Boric government not only a false flag has been installed with its dialog conditions for increasing repression mainly towards land recovery processes, and that in a certain way reinstates extermination policies that we suffer in the last century. Therefore, we affirm that we suffer a new occupation. Perhaps what portrays this government most is its attitude and decision to prosecute the Mapuche autonomist movement, which is registered in the active prosecutors and judges who have green light for this purpose, committing all kinds of procedural and police injustices against our fighting expressions. Today there are more than one hundred Mapuche prisoners in the prisons of the Chilean State.
What advances has the CAM achieved in the recovery of territories and how does it visualize the future of this fight against repressive policies?
From our perspective, we can affirm that we have made substantial advances in what is the recovery of the territory and this is the reason why there has been an increase in repressive policies against mainly the autonomist movement. And in this sense, we can categorically affirm that the recovery of the land has been, mainly, against forestry that are our historical enemy. Since this new reality is that the historical conflict has been exacerbated, because the post-dictatorship governments and this one specifically have put themselves on the side of the powerful, of the rich in the confrontation with our people. These advances allow us to carry out, in some way, our political project of national reconstruction, which is precisely what the state institutionality does not want, is what the fascists of the right do not want, so they have made the decision to repress with greater force the various processes of Mapuche reaffirmation and resistance. It is a fact that reactionary expressions and fascist forces that historically operate in the territory have the approval of the current administration, have the approval of a type of neoliberal governance, in which repressive policies that are increasingly more sophisticated and elaborate try to eliminate and atomize the movement of struggle.
In a context of political persecution, how is Mapuche worldview strengthened as the central axis of resistance and the construction of territorial autonomy?
In a context of greater criminalization of the Mapuche cause and the increase in militarization throughout the Wallmapu, we have opted to maintain resistance with the strengthening of the struggle, which is why we have to strengthen our Mapuche Kimun, our Mapuche Rakiduam, that is, our worldview and culture of our Mapuche nation people. These efforts link us to the entire Mapuche movement in general and has become the central axis of the resistance and reconstruction of our people and are the strategic bases that we as an organization, as Coordinadora Arauco Malleco CAM, we propose.
This is the recovery and defense of the ancestral territory, of the defense of our ItrofillMongen, which would mean the defense of all lives in the Mapuche world. This is the restoration of the communities – of the LOF – based on a proposal to reorganize communities so that the large autonomous territories can be rebuilt butalmapu and ultimately the Wallmapu. It is the recovery and defense of the wallontumapu, of a very diverse and rich world in the cultural, values and ideology, where our own idiosyncratic aspects have a lot of sense and reason for what our Mapuche nation is.
In the current stage of the struggle it is to slowly transform the reality to which they force us to live, and turn this reality into what our ancestors bequeathed. We call this, to get involved and continue fighting in the great reconstruction process of our nation people. We know that there are many diverse contributions, not only from the resistance with the Weichan, but of contributions from the Mapuche that implies understanding and assuming a political project of the size that we embrace from the CAM. It is what we have been raising from the different trenches that we have to assume. Therefore, our people have always strengthened with more and greater ceremonies which in turn strengthen our spiritual forces, everything related to the world of pullu. Which are the fundamental elements in our project.
Source: Clarin.cl
Resumen Latinoamericano, 16 January, 2025https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=13771
#CAM #chile #HéctorLlaitul #mapuche #mapuchePrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #southAmerica
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Julia Chuñil Catricura est une femme Mapuche, présidente de la communauté indigène de Putreguel dans la commune de Máfil, dans la région de Los Ríos. Avant de disparaître, Julia a déclaré à ses voisins qu'elle recevait des menaces parce qu'elle ne voulait pas vendre son terrain.
@WallmapuResiste sur X
#chili #chile #mapuche #mapucheresiste #mapuchePrisoners #antifas
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Julia Chuñil Catricura est une femme Mapuche, présidente de la communauté indigène de Putreguel dans la commune de Máfil, dans la région de Los Ríos. Avant de disparaître, Julia a déclaré à ses voisins qu'elle recevait des menaces parce qu'elle ne voulait pas vendre son terrain.
@WallmapuResiste sur X
#chili #chile #mapuche #mapucheresiste #mapuchePrisoners #antifas
