Tag: Mapuches

Thursday, November 4th 2021 - 09:55 UTC
Two dead and three injured in a gun battle with Mapuche radical groups in southern Chile

Chilean Home Secretary Rodrigo Delgado confirmed on Wednesday the death of two members of the Mapuche community following a shoot out with Marines and Carabineros in the Biobío Region which is under an exceptional emergency state precisely because of continued acts of violence.
Wednesday, November 3rd 2021 - 09:28 UTC
Piñera requests Congress to extend the state of emergency in Mapuche regions

Chilean president Sebastian Piñera announced on Tuesday he sent Congress a bill requesting a further fifteen days extension of the state of emergency in four areas of the Biobío and Araucaria regions, where there have been violent breaches of law and order.
Monday, October 25th 2021 - 22:58 UTC
Mapuches have accomplices within Argentine gov't, says Río Negro Governor

“There is complicity in some officials who instigate” violence in the province of Río Negro, said Governor Arabela Carreras in reference to the National Institute of Indigenous Affairs (INAI) amid the escalation of the Mapuche conflict in Patagonia.
Wednesday, October 20th 2021 - 21:00 UTC
Governor of Argentine province of Río Negro seeks help from federal authorities to fight Mapuche rebels

The Governor of the Argentine province of Río Negro Wednesday requested assistance from the federal administration to cope with increasing violence from so-called Mapuche groups claiming their alleged rights to ancestral lands.
Monday, October 18th 2021 - 09:20 UTC
Argentine ambassador unsuccessfully defends Jones-Huala

Argentina's Ambassador to Chile Rafael Bielsa has turned up at a Chilean judicial hearing to defend incarcerated self-proclaimed Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala even though the latter has vociferously relinquished his Argentine citizenship.
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.