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Constitutional Recognition of the Mapuche People Asked in Chile
Chilean Araucania Bishop, Manuel Camilo Vial, asked today constitutional recognition of the Mapuche people, after describing what is happening in indigenous communities as a serious situation MORE

Police Raid of Mapuche Community in Chile
Special Police Forces violently burst into the Mapuche community of Temucuicui in the region of Chilean Araucania on Friday MORE

Mapuche still face exclusion and inequality
Chile may be categorized as a country with high human development by the United Nations, but the benefits generally do not reach the country’s Mapuche communities MORE

Statement by Mapuche Community of Wente Winkul Mapu on Police Raids
The following is a translation of a statement released by the Mapuche Community of Wente Winkul Mapu, which experienced additional police raids in their territory on Monday, April 2, 2012 MORE

Chilean Police Violence Bursts into Mapuche Community
Chilean Police forces violently burst into a Mapuche community of La Araucania region on Monday, denounced indigenous spokespeople MORE

The Falkland Islands: Home of the Mapuche People
The Mapuche were the native people that, in the previous century, exercised their sovereignty over the Patagonian lands opposite the Falklands or Malvinas, and, based on these credentials, they have much more authority to claim the islands as their own than the Argentinean government MORE

New Trial of Mapuche People under Antiterrorist Law in Chile
The Supreme Court opened a new process against Mapuche indigenous people under the Antiterrorist Legislation, a legal instrument implemented by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet MORE

Chile’s Supreme Court Halts Wind Farm Project and Orders Consultation with Mapuche People
On March 23rd, the Chilean Supreme Court handed down a decision in favor of a Huilliche-Mapuche community who were trying to stop Ecopower from building 56 wind turbines on the island of Chiloé MORE

March 15-23, 2012: SOA Watch Solidarity Delegation To Chile
Standing with the Chilean Student Movement for the Right to Education and with the Mapuche People in their Struggle to Recover Ancestral Lands MORE

Art expo explores questions of Mapuche identity
An art exhibition opening this Friday in Temuco looks to challenge the consistently negative portrayal of the Mapuches MORE

Mapuche Man Commits Suicide in Prison
On Saturday, March 3rd, a Mapuche man who was in a Temuco prison was found dead in his cell. The next day it was announced that the man had committed suicide by hanging himself with some cloth he had MORE

Indigenous Focus: Chile’s Indigenous Peoples Seek Government Protection of Languages
Tuesday, February 21st, was the “International Mother Language Day,” although in Chile it is sometimes referred to as “International Day of Indigenous Languages.” MORE

The Chilean Police "no longer shoots with rubber bullets at the Mapuche people, but with lead"
Luis Marileo Cariqueo, victim of police brutality since his childhood in the Mapuche community, again is being harassed and persecuted by the Chilean police MORE

Argentina: Mapuche Community and NBA All-Star Manu Ginobili in Conflict over Land
A long-running case involving Manu Ginobili of the NBA and the Mapuche community of Paichil Antriao made its way back into the Argentine press this week MORE

Indigenous Focus: Courts and Indigenous Rights
In the past week, you may have noticed a large number of reports discussing indigenous peoples going to the courts MORE

Chile’s National Institute of Human Rights Files Case on Behalf of Mapuche Against Police
On Friday, February 3rd, Chile’s National Institute of Human Rights filed a case with the Temuco Court of Appeals on behalf of the Mapuche children and youth living in the Mapuche community of José Jineo MORE

Mapuche Community Receives 308 Hectares of Land
In a press release dated Monday, January 30th, the Mapuche community of María Ancaleo viuda de Amaza was returned 308 hectares (approximately 760 acres) of land MORE

Mapuche student leader’s arrest a disgrace
José Ancalao, spokesperson for the Federation of Mapuche Students and member of CONFECH, suffered a broken nose when police arrested him in early January after trying to speak with the officers violently arresting a fellow Mapuche at a protest in Temuco MORE

Against the Mapuches: racism, stigmatisation and defamation
The indigenous town of Carahue hit the media headlines in Chile as 2012 got underway, this time for being linked with the criticised anti-terrorist law MORE

New Police Raid on Mapuche Community in Chile
The Chilean police again disrupted violently in the Mapuche community of Araucania, indigenous representatives denounced on social networks MORE

Chilean minister explains accusations against Mapuche people
Chile’s Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter pointed to a matter of misinterpretation as to why his statements apparently lay blame with indigeneous groups MORE

Oil drilling threatens Mapuche
While new techniques of hydrocarbon drilling in new areas are lauded by some as a solution to Argentina’s energy imports, the indigenous communities who live in areas where these resources can be found argue the activity is a threat to their communities MORE

Jailed Chile Mapuches ready for 'confrontation' with state
Leaders of an activist group of indigenous Mapuche people in Chile told AFP from their prison cell Monday that they were ready for a "confrontation" with the state to reclaim their "ancestral" lands MORE

Violent and Massive Police Attacks against the Mapuche Communities of the Wallmapu
“It is irresponsible of president Piñera to announce the use of the Antiterrorist Law against Mapuche community leaders because of the mere fact that they have territorial disputes with the forestry companies affected by the fires” MORE

Public Statement Made by Mapuche Communities of Makewe
Two sisters were arrested, tearing a child of a year and a half from the arms of his mother leaving him without anyone to care for him and his two siblings, both minors, who witnessed and tried to resist the violent beating and arrest MORE

Chile blames deadly fires on Mapuche Indian terror
Chile's government said Friday that many of the wildfires burning out of control in Patagonia were set intentionally, and blamed a Mapuche Indian group that has long struggled to regain its ancestral lands for starting the blaze that killed seven firefighters MORE

Chile Mapuche leader's house burned in suspected arson
A suspicious blaze has destroyed the home of an indigenous Mapuche leader in Chile, amid tension over a spate of forest fires MORE

The sister and mother of Matías Catrileo are detained
The sister of Catrileo, Catalina Catrileo, emphasised that “in spite of the Supreme Court endorsing the conviction and considering him to be to blame for the death of Matías, now this guilt will be repaid without prison, in freedom MORE

Chile Denounces Arrest, Beating of Mapuche Student Leader
The spokesman for the Confederation of Students of Chile, José Ancalao, reported being detained and beaten by police after a march commemorating the fourth anniversary of the murder of a young Mapuche, Matthias Castrileo MORE

Chilean Court Prohibits Use of Tear Gas Against Mapuche Communities
On Wednesday, December 21st, the Temuco Court of Appeals decided a case in which they ordered the Chilean police force to refrain from using tear gas in the homes of Mapuche communities near Ercilla MORE

Chile’s Mapuche community finds international support
A group of over 70 authors, artists and academics from Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Mexico, Guatemala and the United States, have sent a letter to the United Nations calling for intervention in the ongoing violence against the Mapuche people MORE

Mapuche Community of Valentín Marín Receives Land Titles
It was reported on Friday, December 9th, that the Mapuche community of Valentín Marín — located about 35 kilometers west of Temuco — received title to some small, but important parcels of land MORE

Statement against the latest Police violent raid into Temucuicui territory
Police and plain-clothes officers have entered the Community, attacked individuals and stolen animals, something which has been presented in formal complaints against the Police, but so far the Chilean Justice system has failed to deliver justice MORE

Mapuche Teacher Denounces Discrimination in Cerro Navia
“I have been victim of human rights abuses with the aim of obstructing the implementation of the indigenous language programme..." MORE

News Archive

Demonstration in support of the Mapuche political prisoners on hunger strike
A call from Mapuche organisations in Santiago

mapuche demonstration
Letter handed to the Chilean Representative to the UK. Mapuche International Link hold a public demonstration on Thursday (May 26) in support of four Mapuche political prisoners now entering DAY 70 of their hunger strike protest. MORE

Conference

Tuesday 18th
January, 2011
15:00-18:00 Hs.
London

Reynaldo Mariqueo
The 1880s Genocide of the Mapuche-Tehuelche in Argentinean Patagonia in the so-called "Conquest of the Desert"

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Photo: Reynaldo Mariqueo and Mr. Rafael Moreno, Chilean Ambassador to the UK
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A photos of the demonstration which took place on June 2, 2011 in support of the Mapuche political prisoners on hunger strike

Photos: UK NGO’s appeal to Chile for justice for jailed Mapuche hunger strikers/Day 80 MORE

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INDIGENOUS FIGHT TO KEEP LAND IN CHILE
For the indigenous Pehuenches, the Bio-Bio River is sacred. According to their traditions, if the river is not respected, Mother Earth will get angry, nearby volcanoes will erupt and the land will tremble with earthquakes. MORE
- Special Article from the Washington Times

OTHER NEWS

UN Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Visits Argentina, Offers Recommendations

Indigenous Focus: Mapuche claim shows reaches, limits of international law

El Indio Araucano, an example of overcoming adversity

Chile police clash with Mapuche Indians

Indians occupy U.S. company's gas plant in Argentina

A New Strategy for Repression? Mapuche children seem to be the target of the Chilean Police

Chile, Police Special Forces intimidating Mapuche Indigenous communities

Mapuche Environmental Activist Jose Llanquileo Visits European Parliament

Speech of Machi Fidel Tranamil of the Makewe Territory before the UN Human Rights Council

Chilean Senate approves extensive anti-discrimination law

Three Mapuche, Three Police Injured; Two Mapuche Arrested in Ercilla