Tag: Araucania

• Tuesday, August 24th 2021 - 09:27 UTC

  Chile's Mapuches interrupt air traffic at Temuco airport and destroy forestry machinery

  

  Growing unrest in Chile's Araucanía region, where the aboriginal communities mainly Mapuches are demanding the government honours treaties dating back to the Spanish conquest and later when Chile emerged as an independent country.

• Friday, August 28th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Chilean truckers begin strike to protest violence in Araucania province

  

  Chilean truckers went on strike on Thursday in protest over violence affecting them in the country’s restive Araucania province and the slow progress through the congress of a raft of security and justice bills.

• Tuesday, August 25th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Chilean truck drivers threaten with a countrywide strike unless government stops attacks in Araucania

  

  Truck drivers in Chile late on Sunday called for a countrywide strike to begin Thursday if President Sebastian Piñera and Congress do not act immediately to stem a rising tide of attacks against their number in Chile´s Araucania region.

• Monday, August 24th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Mapuche conflict in south Chile becomes more fierce as stray bullet injures 9 year old girl in the head

  

  Chilean President Sebastian Piñera highlighted an attack in the country´s Araucania region that resulted in the injury of a 9-year-old girl, saying it was a reason to crack down on violent unrest in Chile's south.

• Monday, August 17th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  UN sends fact finding mission to Chile where Mapuches are on hunger strike

  

  The United Nations has sent a fact-finding team to Chile's restive Araucania region where a jailed Indigenous Mapuche leader has spent more than 100 days on a hunger strike over his detention during the coronavirus pandemic.

• Monday, December 24th 2018 - 12:31 UTC

  Chilean lawmakers to parley with Mapuche leaders in January

  

  Chile's Speaker of the House of Deputies Maya Fernández-Allende has agreed to hold a special session during the second week of January with Mapuche leaders to discuss as violence in La Araucanía and the murder of Camilo Catrillanca, it was announced.

• Monday, December 10th 2018 - 10:21 UTC

  Chilean President Piñera pulls Jungle Commando out of Araucania

  

  Chile's President Sebastián Piñera Saturday announced the Carabineros' élite GOPE squad, commonly referred to as “Jungle Commando,” will be withdrawn from the Araucania region, but warned that security in the area will be reinforced nonetheless.

• Wednesday, November 28th 2018 - 13:31 UTC

  Chile's carabineros freeze Jungle Commando training in Colombia

  

  Carabineros Director General Hermes Soto Monday admitted his force would freeze the Jungle Commando training programme in Colombia. “We have no plans to continue sending people to train there,” he said.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2013 - 06:14 UTC

  UN calls on Chile to stop using anti-terrorism law against indigenous Mapuches

  

  A United Nations investigator on Tuesday urged Chile’s government to stop using an anti-terrorism law against Mapuche Indians who are fighting to recover their ancestral land.

• Monday, January 7th 2013 - 13:03 UTC

  Piñera after political consensus to declare state of emergency in Mapuche territory

  

  President Sebastián Piñera is considering declaring the state of emergency in the Araucanía region, in southern Chile, where six arson attacks which cost the lives of two people took place since Friday, Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick said.