Just a heads up for anyone who strongly objects to a bit of bad language! We also discuss an issue from the past week that has us a bit riled up, with a couple of profanities slipping through as a result. Until then, uncertainty and fear of more violence prevail.Episode #176 of the NLSC Podcast is out now! Arcane and I are your hosts this week, and with the imminent release of NBA 2K17, we have some final previews and developer blogs to talk about. But there is still a long way to go before the future president takes office. This will be another of the great challenges of the next government. To dialogue, guarantees must be given, said Verónica Figueroa Huencho, an academic at the Institute of Public Affairs of the University of Chile, to the EFE agency, and stressed the need to demilitarize the Mapuche territory.Īccording to Figueroa, also a Mapuche, the constituent space “becomes a guarantee of recognition”, but it does not imply an “automatic” dialogue if there is no support from the authorities. Others are committed to a “struggle for national liberation”, among them the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM), one of the fundamental organizations for the Mapuche mobilization since the 1990s and which has claimed many violent attacks in the area.Īlthough the CAM spokesperson, Héctor Llaitul, repeatedly expressed his willingness to dialogue, other more radical organizations reject it. Some, represented in the Constitutional Convention, call to define the character of the Chilean State as plurinational, a step that would give recognition denied for more than 200 years to the native peoples who inhabited the territory centuries ago, said analysts consulted by the EFE agency.
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Within the Mapuche movement there is a debate on how to achieve territorial autonomy. The father of the Mapuche Camilo Catrillanca, murdered in 2018, speaks with a policeman during a militarized police operation last January. The possibility of declaring “multinationality” that gives more visibility and prominence to indigenous peoples could be a solution. Some analysts bet some chips on the Constituent Convention that since the middle of this year has been drafting a new Magna Carta, to replace the one in force today, inherited from the Augusto Pinochet regime.
But for now no one seems to be very clear about what those actions would be. “What is needed there are extraordinary measures,” he emphasizes. It is not an easy problem, without a doubt, but there was no desire of the politicians to put an end to it ”, interprets the political scientist Kenneth Bunker, director of the Tres Quintos consultancy.Īs explained to Clarion, sending more military personnel does not solve the problem. “No government so far has been able to solve the Mapuche conflict. But the conflict does not subside and, according to political analysts, other measures will have to be taken to prevent the situation from ending in new confrontations and repression.įor many analysts, it will be key that the future government establishes some dialogue channel. Since then, more than 2,000 members of the Armed Forces have been deployed there to reinforce the task of the police. President Sebastián Piñera decreed a state of exception and sent soldiers to control the Araucanía area, in southern Chile. So much so that Piñera decreed on October 12 a state of exception and the militarization of the Araucanía area. The clashes left two Mapuche dead and a climate of extreme tension. Since last month, the conflict has worsened with new fires to properties and vehicles by indigenous groups, and a strong reaction from the security forces. Several areas of the south of the country were the scene in recent months of attacks and fires on agricultural machinery and properties, roadblocks and shootings that ended with at least two deaths.Īnd, since the murder of the young Mapuche Camilo Catrillanca in 2018 at the hands of the Carabineros (the militarized Police), trust between communities and institutions has been broken. The Mapuche people are the largest indigenous ethnic group in Chile and claim “ancestral lands” that were forcibly occupied by the Chilean State at the end of the 19th century and that now belong mostly to forestry companies, owned by the most powerful economic groups. Mapuche families at the funeral of a young man shot by the police last July, in Lumaco, in the Araucanía area of Chile.
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