Tag: Mapuches

• Saturday, October 2nd 2010 - 06:10 UTC

  Chilean Senate approves reforms to controversial anti-terrorism law

  

  Senate passed new reforms to the controversial anti-terrorism law this week, but they were not enough to end the Mapuche hunger strike, which enters its 82nd day today Friday.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2010 - 19:31 UTC

  The 34 hunger striker Mapuches in Chile has become world news

  

  Chile’s government said this week it will be impossible to meet demands by 34 Mapuche hunger strikers that all three branches of Chile’s government meet together to resolve the on-going hunger strike.

• Monday, September 13th 2010 - 18:26 UTC

  Protest intensifies in support of Mapuches held under law from Pinochet time

  

  Four Chilean deputies were forcefully removed last week from a jail where hunger striking indigenous Mapuche prisoners are being held. The deputies had announced they too would join the strike.

• Saturday, September 11th 2010 - 17:50 UTC

  Chile’s Catholic willing to help negotiate in Mapuche hunger strike

  

  The Chilean Catholic Church has agreed to help negotiate an end to nearly two-month long hunger strike by indigenous Mapuche prisoners, following an assistance request earlier this week from President Sebastián Piñera