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Angol/Wallmapu — Chilean courts today have convicted former Chilean police Colonel, Marco Aurelio Treuer Heysen to 7 years in prison, nearly 20 years after the police murder of 17-year-old Mapuche Land Defender, Alex Lemun, at a Mapuche land reclamation. On November 7th, 2002, Chilean National Police used tear gas canisters, lead pellets and rubber bullets …
Hector Llaitul, spokesperson for the Arauco Malleco Coordinating Committee (CAM) and his son Ernesto (who is also a member), were both arrested by Chilean authorities this week just days leading up to the Chilean Draft Constitution on September 4th. [Tirúa, Wallmapu] The Chilean Special Operations Police (PDI) arrested Mapuche Land Defender, Ernesto Llaitul, son of …
Boric Fires Minister and Journalist Threatened by Police for Interviewing CAM Leadership Temuco, WALLMAPU (aka Chile)—Mapuche Land Defender and Spokesperson for the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (Arauco Malleco Communities in Conflict - CAM), Hector Llaitul, was arrested yesterday afternoon near his home by Special Force police officers, charged under the Chilean Interior State Security Law for …
Original Article by: Irene Zugasti Hervás Translated by: WCCC Toronto **** This piece is translated from a 2016 article in the Basque Feminist zine, Pikara Magazine. Images and report made during the Humanitarian Caravan to Donbass in May 2015. *** The images of beautiful activists wrapped in national flags in the Maidan square or those …
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24-year-old Mapuche youth, Camilo Catrillanca Marin, murdered by the "Jungla" Commando—a Columbian trained special force unit of the Chilean National Police Force
On 5 May 2018, the Criminal Court of Temuco acquitted Machi Francisca Linconao and eight Mapuche men of all charges relating 2013 deaths of the Luchsinger-Mackay couple. However, three other Mapuche community members who faced charges in this case, José Peralino Huinca, José Tralcal Coche and Luis Trancal Quidel, were convicted under Chile’s Anti-Terrorist Act. …
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The following is a summary of the recent actions carried out by Machi (Medicine Healer) Celestino Cordova, who resisted 102 days on hunger strike. All our Newen to our Mapuche warrior and our dignified people for supporting this brave endevour and resisting ongoing colonial encroachment by the Chilean State and other capitalist interest. More on …
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Freedom News Jan 30th It has taken nearly a year-and-a-half of fighting the authorities, and a second autopsy, to confirm what the family of Macarena Valdés Muñoz already knew – she was hanged after her death. There was no suicide. On the afternoon of Monday August 22nd, 2016 Macarena, a Mapuche environmental activist fighting against the construction of a …
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PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—25 January 2018 “Communities Across Toronto Stand With Muslim Community and Resist Fascist Violence” Toronto, Ontario—Across Turtle Island, people mobilized and gathered in acts of remembrance for those during the Quebec City Mosque Shooting and in solidarity with the Muslim community. A year ago, in Toronto, vigils and rallies were …
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3 of 4 Mapuche Political Prisoners End 116 Day Hunger Strike – ARIEL TRAGOL continues fast Oct 2nd, 2017 – On Friday, September 29th, family members of Mapuche Political Prisoners on hunger strike gathered at the Chilean Presidential palace to put forward the demands of their relatives, many of whom were nearing their deathbeds after …
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