Tag: Mapuches

• Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 09:41 UTC

  Jones Huala must leave Chile at the earliest

  

  Argentine-born Mapuche rebel Facundo Jones Huala must leave Chile as soon as he is discharged from the hospital where he was admitted after going on a hunger strike for 50 days to demand his freedom which the Supreme Court granted last week, the authorities in Santiago ruled last Friday.

• Monday, January 29th 2024 - 10:24 UTC

  Mapuche Resistance behind National Park fire, Chubut governor says

  

  Over 1000 hectares of land have burned down in the Los Alerces National Park in the Argentine province of Chubut, where Governor Ignacio Torres blamed the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) rebel organization for starting the fire, it was reported Sunday. “There are indications that the fire was intentional,” he stressed.

• Friday, January 5th 2024 - 10:13 UTC

  Jones-Huala extradited yet again to Chile

  

  Mapuche rebel Facundo Jones Huala was extradited Thursday for a second time in his life from Argentina to Chile to serve out the remainder of his prison sentence for a 2013 arson attack. Jones Huala was escorted across the Andes by Interpol and law enforcement officers from both countries.

• Saturday, November 18th 2023 - 09:42 UTC

  Sentenced Mapuche leaders cry 'neo-fascist counter-offensive'

  

  Four Mapuche rebels from the Arauco Malleco Coordinating Committee (CAM) rebel group in southern Chile said Friday that the prison sentences handed down to them earlier this week were a sign of the neo-fascist counter-offensive against the autonomist movement seeking to regain political-territorial rights.

• Wednesday, November 15th 2023 - 10:14 UTC

  Argentina's Supreme Court rules to extradite Jones Huala to Chile

  

  Argentina's Supreme Court (CSJN) Tuesday cleared the way for the extradition of Mapuche guerrilla leader Facundo Jones Huala to Chile to serve the remainder of his sentence.

• Friday, September 22nd 2023 - 09:30 UTC

  Mapuche rebels arrested in southern Chile

  

  Chilean authorities in the Biobío region announced Thursday the arrest of at least 11 leaders of the Mapuche Lafkenche Resistance (RML), a radical group behind numerous attacks in the south of the country as a result of the territorial dispute between the state, indigenous groups and forestry companies that exploit lands considered ancestral by the indigenous people.

• Tuesday, August 1st 2023 - 10:21 UTC

  Extradition of Mapuche leader to Chile granted, but appeals will ensue

  

  A federal judge in Bariloche Monday ruled in favor of extraditing Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) leader Facundo Jones-Huala to Chile under the recommendation that the days he spent in detention in Argentina be counted as time served.

• Thursday, May 11th 2023 - 10:17 UTC

  Chilean Army declares red alert after Mapuche arson attacks

  

  Chile's Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve Wednesday announced that a red alert was being declared in the southern part of the country following arson attacks allegedly perpetrated by Mapuche rebels, it was reported in Santiago.

• Friday, January 20th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

  Argentine gov't siding with self-proclaimed machi, Villa Mascardi residents say

  

  Residents in the Argentine town of Villa Mascardi deemed unacceptable Thursday the proposal extended by Human Rights Secretary Horacio Pietragalla Corti whereby Betiana Colhuan, a self-proclaimed machi (Mapuche leader) who eventually garnered additional support from members of the indigenous community, have access to the land she claims to be sacred to her and her ancestors of the Lafken Winkul Mapu group.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2023 - 10:54 UTC

  No Mapuche Resistance involvement proven in Chubut fire

  

  Chubut investigators denied Monday that the Ancestral Mapuche Resistance (RAM) rebel organization had claimed responsibility for the fire in Currumahuida hill in the town of El Hoyo.