Tag: Mapuches

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.
Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 09:32 UTC
Mapuche groups claim responsibility for yet another attack in Chile

Mapuche violence is reaching unprecedented levels after the Arauco-Malleco Coordinating Committee (CAM) claimed responsibility Tuesday for an arson attack against a forestry site in the commune of Lumaco, in the Araucanía region, 700 kilometers south of Santiago.
Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 10:21 UTC
Mapuche worker killed in armed attack in southern Chile

Mapuche forestry worker Segundo Catril Neculqueo, aged 66, died Tuesday afternoon after an armed attack in the Chilean commune of Lumaco, in Araucanía, while one of the two other victims is still hospitalized.