Tag: Mapuches

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 09:02 UTC

  Bariloche residents to march against handing over land to Mapuche group

  

  Bariloche residents are planning a mass demonstration to be staged May 29, marking National Army Day, to oppose a court ruling whereby the premises of the Military Mountain School are to be handed over to a Mapuche community.

• Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Chile's armed forces will respond if they have to, minister says

  

  Chile's Interior Minister Izkia Siches has warned the armed forces would “respond” in case of an attack by radical Mapuche groups after the state of emergency has been reimposed in La Araucanía due to increasing violence.

• Wednesday, May 18th 2022 - 21:37 UTC

  Chile back to state of exception in southern provinces

  

  Despite its reluctance to resort to the same constitutional mechanisms adopted by the Sebastián Piñera administration, the Chilean Government of leftwing President Gabriel Boric Font Wednesday announced a state of exception to address violence in the indigenous southern zones.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 19:32 UTC

  CAM calls for Mapuche armed resistance in southern Chile

  

  Despite the head of state's pro-Native People's rights stance, a Mapuche group in southern Chile Wednesday likened current President Gabriel Boric Font to his rightwing predecessor Sebastián Piñera and called for armed resistance in the face of a possible military deployment.

• Friday, May 6th 2022 - 10:38 UTC

  Argentine gov't supports court ruling granting Bariloche lands to Mapuche group

  

  The Argentine government of President Alberto Fernández supports a court ruling whereby lands in the province of Bariloche are to be handed over to Mapuche groups, Casa Rosada Spokeswoman Gabriela Cerruti announced.

• Saturday, April 23rd 2022 - 10:40 UTC

  Chile: Rebel groups strike again in Araucanía

  

  Mapuche rebels in southern Chile shot a lorry driver along Route 5 Friday morning in La Araucanía and later burned down his vehicle. The trucker was rushed to a hospital nearby in serious condition.

• Monday, April 11th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  New Chilean government faces challenge of Mapuche violence: some 70 attacks in three weeks

  

  Violence in the south of Chile is on the rise and the newly installed government of president Gabriel Boric is showing greater concern following the rejection of conciliatory messages by the indigenous Mapuche who is demanding land in La Araucaria, which they claim belongs to their ancestors, and now is occupied and exploited by forestry companies and farmers.

• Monday, April 4th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Chilean minister apologizes for pro-Mapuche remarks

  

  Chile's Interior Minister Izkia Siches has conveyed her apologies to the Government of Argentina for statements that appeared to endorse the Mapuche claim to the “Wallmapu,” the indigenous ancestral lands which would challenge sovereignty over a large part of Patagonia.

• Friday, April 1st 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Road assailants burn trucks in Chile's Araucanía

  

  A group of masked assailants burned three lorries in Chile's Araucanía region four days after the government of President Gabriel Boric decided not to extend the state of emergency on that area some 670 kilometers south of Santiago.

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Ambassador says Jones-Huala may serve out his sentence in Argentina

  

  Argentina's Ambassador to Chile Rafael Bielsa Monday said the newly-paroled Mapuche leader Facundo Jones-Huala “could serve the rest of his sentence in Argentina.”