Tag: Mapuches

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 22:26 UTC

  Chile lodges criminal complaint against Mapuche Resistance Group

  

  Following a video release in which a group of hooded and heavily armed individuals calling themselves the Mapuche Territory Resistance, who occupied by force the administration offices of a Chilean National Park, the government o President Sebastian Piñera lodged a criminal complaint against them plus demanding their eviction.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2021 - 08:59 UTC

  “Mapuche” gangs lead Río Negro Governor to seek reinforcements from Argentina's federal government

  

  The Argentine province of Rio Negro has requested federal aid to control violent attacks from alleged Mapuche communities against people and property over the weekend.

• Sunday, September 5th 2021 - 07:12 UTC

  More arson and terrorist attacks in Mapuche claimed territory, south of Chile

  

  Following on another arson attack in the Chilean region of La Araucanía, the land of the Mapuche indigenous communities, the presidential delegate Victor Manoli has called on Congress to speed legislation “to pursue and arrest the culprits of these terrorist actions”

• Tuesday, August 24th 2021 - 09:27 UTC

  Chile's Mapuches interrupt air traffic at Temuco airport and destroy forestry machinery

  

  Growing unrest in Chile's Araucanía region, where the aboriginal communities mainly Mapuches are demanding the government honours treaties dating back to the Spanish conquest and later when Chile emerged as an independent country.

• Wednesday, July 14th 2021 - 09:16 UTC

  Chilean Mapuches, carrying weapons and Balaklavas bury comrade killed in shootout with police

  

  Chilean officials strongly condemned the display of guns during the funeral of a man who was killed in a shootout with Carabineros following an arson attack, which took place last Friday in an estate in La Araucanía Region.

• Monday, August 24th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Mapuche conflict in south Chile becomes more fierce as stray bullet injures 9 year old girl in the head

  

  Chilean President Sebastian Piñera highlighted an attack in the country´s Araucania region that resulted in the injury of a 9-year-old girl, saying it was a reason to crack down on violent unrest in Chile's south.

• Monday, November 12th 2018 - 12:08 UTC

  Mapuche leader predicts conflict will increase with Chile's government

  

  Mapuche Council of All Lands spokesman Aucán Huilcamán Sunday anticipated conflict and tension will increase between his community and the government of President Sebastián Piñera since there was no dialogue between them and each one sticked to their separate agendas.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2018 - 12:50 UTC

  Mapuche demands freeze Chinese wind energy project for Bariloche

  

  A Chinese renewable energy investment in Patagonia was halted after no agreement could be reached with the small mapuche community living where the wind turbines were going to be installed.

• Wednesday, March 7th 2018 - 06:08 UTC

  Chilean president presents constitutional reform a week before leaving office

  

  Chilean president Michelle Bachelet is ending her term with an ambitious proposal for a new constitution that would ensure equal pay for men and women and strengthen guarantees of the right to strike. Bachelet sent the proposal to Congress on Tuesday, just five days before she leaves office.

• Thursday, January 18th 2018 - 10:23 UTC

  Francis calls on Mapuches to shun violence, which “turns a most just cause into a lie”

  

  Pope Francis urged Chile’s indigenous Mapuche people on Wednesday to shun violence, saying unity was the best weapon against “the deforestation of hope,” as they struggle to defend their culture and reclaim ancestral lands.