Tag: Mapuches

• Friday, January 20th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

  Argentine gov't siding with self-proclaimed machi, Villa Mascardi residents say

  

  Residents in the Argentine town of Villa Mascardi deemed unacceptable Thursday the proposal extended by Human Rights Secretary Horacio Pietragalla Corti whereby Betiana Colhuan, a self-proclaimed machi (Mapuche leader) who eventually garnered additional support from members of the indigenous community, have access to the land she claims to be sacred to her and her ancestors of the Lafken Winkul Mapu group.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2023 - 10:54 UTC

  No Mapuche Resistance involvement proven in Chubut fire

  

  Chubut investigators denied Monday that the Ancestral Mapuche Resistance (RAM) rebel organization had claimed responsibility for the fire in Currumahuida hill in the town of El Hoyo.

• Friday, November 11th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Chilean President likens Mapuches to Nazis

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font said during his first visit as head of state to La Araucanía that the Mapuche groups carrying out terrorist attacks in the area were “cowards,” and likened their actions to those of the Nazis in the 1930s.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Mapuche rebels launch warning video in Argentine Patagonia

  

  The Mapuche rebel group Lof Lafken Winkul Mapu Tuesday released a new video urging members of the native community to carry out “more actions” to protect the rewe (space) the native community holds sacred.

• Saturday, October 15th 2022 - 14:00 UTC

  Mapuche rebels stage new attack in Argentine Patagonia

  

  A watchman at a Villa la Angostura road construction site was held at gunpoint early Friday by hooded assailants as they set fire to heavy machinery and left a note demanding the release of “Mapuche political prisoners” including the women arrested in the eviction of Villa Mascardi.

• Friday, October 7th 2022 - 10:11 UTC

  Argentine women's minister resigns over arrest of pregnant, breastfeeding Mapuche suspects

  

  Argentina's Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, turned in her resignation Thursday over discrepancies with the administration of President Alberto Fernández on the handling of the Villa Mascardi crisis with the Mapuche community.

• Friday, October 7th 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Argentine Minister praises federal forces for Mapuche operation

  

  Argentina's Security Minister Aníbal Fernández claimed “there was no repression” against the Mapuches in Villa Mascardi as law enforcement officers evicted the usurping indigenist groups at Lof Lafken Winkul Mapu, which resulted in several arrests.

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

  Mapuche violence escalates in Argentine Patagonia

  

  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.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  Chile: Mapuche protester arrested after demonstration in Araucania

  

  One person was arrested Tuesday in the Chilean region of La Araucanía after the radical Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM) Mapuche indigenist movement staged a demonstration on Route 5 South demanding the release of their incarcerated comrades.

• Thursday, August 11th 2022 - 09:16 UTC

  Resignation of those who declared a volcano a Mapuche sacred site requested

  

  Argentina's Environment Minister Juan Cabandié demanded the resignation of National Parks Administration (APN) Chairman Lautaro Erratchú and of the rest of the agency's board after last week they declared the Lanín volcano a Mapuche sacred site.