Tag: Mapuche

• Thursday, October 14th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Despite the state of emergency in southern Chile, Mapuche groups continue with violent actions

  

  In what seems a challenge to the Chilean government which declared a state of emergency in a region to the south of the country, a group of indigenous Mapuche demanding autonomy invaded a farm and set on fire heavy equipment and several vehicles.

• Thursday, September 9th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Mapuche community to enclose ancestral lands and claim right to decide who goes through exclusive club in the area

  

  Members of a Mapuche community have announced Wednesday they would control who goes through a piece of land they claim to be their own.

• Wednesday, June 23rd 2021 - 20:25 UTC

  Mapuche flag hoisted at Argentine university in Patagonia

  

  The Argentina's National University of Comahue in Neuquén has hoisted the “Wenufoye”, the Mapuche national symbol during the “Wiñoy Xipantu” festivities, a celebration according to indigenous traditions for the beginning of a new year.

• Wednesday, August 19th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Mapuche leader on hunger strike reaches understanding with Chilean government

  

  A Chilean indigenous leader who has spent more than 100 days on hunger strike over his detention during the coronavirus pandemic has agreed to end it after negotiations with the government, the justice minister said on Tuesday.

• 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.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2018 - 09:24 UTC

  Mapuche rebel Jones-Huala gets 9 years in Chilean prison

  

  Argentine Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala was sentenced Friday to nine years and one day in jail by a Chilean court in Valdivia. Jones-Huala received a six-year sentence for arson plus three years and one day for illegal possession of a firearm in the context of the 2013 attack at the Pisu Pisué farm in Río Bueno.

• Wednesday, December 19th 2018 - 08:53 UTC

  Patagonia indigenous peoples suing oil majors for “environmental contamination”

  

  A major group of indigenous people living in Argentine Patagonia are taking some of the world's biggest oil and gas multinationals to court for “environmental contamination,” Greenpeace said this week. The Mapuche are suing American giant Exxon, French company Total and the Argentina-based Pan American Energy, which is part-owned by BP.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 19:50 UTC

  Former President Julio Argentino Roca not good enough for a Neuquén school's name

  

  School No. 103 in the Argentine city of Neuquén Tuesday changed its name from that of two-time President “Julio Argentino Roca” to “Rosa Alaniz,” who was one of the first teachers of the institution.

• 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.