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Montevideo, February 22nd 2025 - 16:21 UTC

Tag: Facundo Jones Huala

  • Saturday, February 15th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    Argentina: Ancestral Mapuche Resistance declared a terrorist organization

    Since the measure halting evictions from what native groups claim to be their ancestral lands, wildfires have been on the rise in Patagonia, Bullrich explained

    Argentina's Libertarian Government of President Javier Milei Friday declared the Ancestral Mapuche Resistance (RAM) a Terrorist Organization, so that federal security forces can adopt the proper measures as Lonko Facundo Jones-Huala, who has served a prison sentence in Chile for arson, has been speaking in favor of setting Patagonian lands on fire.

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  • Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 13:28 UTC

    Argentine authorities take action against RAM for Patagonia fires

    “I am a militant of the Mapuche cause,” Jones-Huala insisted

    Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said Tuesday that the Libertarian Government of President Javier Milei would be declaring the Ancestral Mapuche Resistance (RAM) a terrorist group, in addition to other measures against lonko (leader) Facundo Jones-Huala, who claimed responsibility for the arson-caused wildfires in the Patagonian province of Chubut and urged his comrades to up the armed struggle because all those “tools are valid for the liberation of our people.” Jones-Huala also denied any involvement in the fire affecting El Bolsón in the province of Río Negro. “Against landowners yes, but not against our environment,” Jones Huala said earlier this week.

  • Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 09:41 UTC

    Jones Huala must leave Chile at the earliest

    Jones Huala first needs to recover from a 50-day hunger strike

    Argentine-born Mapuche rebel Facundo Jones Huala must leave Chile as soon as he is discharged from the hospital where he was admitted after going on a hunger strike for 50 days to demand his freedom which the Supreme Court granted last week, the authorities in Santiago ruled last Friday.

  • Friday, August 16th 2024 - 21:36 UTC

    Chile's Supreme Court orders Jones Huala's release

    Jones Huala was deemed to have served out his sentence by June 14

    Chile's Supreme Court Friday ordered the immediate release of convicted Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala of Argentine origin because he had served out his sentence by June 14 and had therefore been “illegally deprived of his freedom.” The Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) activist had been convicted of arson and illegal possession of firearms in 2013.

  • Friday, January 5th 2024 - 10:13 UTC

    Jones-Huala extradited yet again to Chile

    Jones Huala might be just months from being released in Chile

    Mapuche rebel Facundo Jones Huala was extradited Thursday for a second time in his life from Argentina to Chile to serve out the remainder of his prison sentence for a 2013 arson attack. Jones Huala was escorted across the Andes by Interpol and law enforcement officers from both countries.

  • Wednesday, November 15th 2023 - 10:14 UTC

    Argentina's Supreme Court rules to extradite Jones Huala to Chile

    It will be up to the Argentine government to extradite the RAM leader.

    Argentina's Supreme Court (CSJN) Tuesday cleared the way for the extradition of Mapuche guerrilla leader Facundo Jones Huala to Chile to serve the remainder of his sentence.

  • Tuesday, August 1st 2023 - 10:21 UTC

    Extradition of Mapuche leader to Chile granted, but appeals will ensue

    Jones-Huala was arrested in the town of El Bolsón earlier this year

    A federal judge in Bariloche Monday ruled in favor of extraditing Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) leader Facundo Jones-Huala to Chile under the recommendation that the days he spent in detention in Argentina be counted as time served.

  • Monday, January 30th 2023 - 17:16 UTC

    Mapuche rebel Jones Huala arrested in Argentine Patagonia

    The convicted Mapuche rebel was in a visible state of drunkenness when he was arrested

    Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) leader Facundo Jones Huala has been arrested by Río Negro provincial police in the Argentine city of El Bolsón after being a fugitive from Chile's Judiciary since Feb. 11, 2022.

  • Wednesday, September 28th 2022 - 17:53 UTC

    Mapuche violence escalates in Argentine Patagonia

    Fugitive Facundo Jones-Huala is said to be in the Villa Mascardi area

    As Mapuche violence escalates in the Villa Mascardi area in the Department of Bariloche in the Argentine Patagonia province of Río Negro, former Security Minister and current PRO Chairwoman Patricia Bullrich Wednesday said fugitive rebel Facundo Jones-Huala was hiding there.

  • Thursday, February 17th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

    Jones-Huala wanted back in Chilean jail following Supreme Court decision

    The Mapuche leader has never measured the damage he has done

    Argentine-born Mapuche leader Facundo Jones-Huala has been declared a fugitive by the Government of Chile after the Supreme Court overruled -albeit not unanimously- a decision from a Temuco court of appeals whereby he had been granted parole. Jones-Huala had already served the minimum time required to be granted an early release.

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