First, we will make a very brief overview of the history, essential to understand the historical conflict that we as a people-nation with the Chilean Mapuche. Upon arrival of the English, the ancestral Mapuche territory was approximately 30 million hectares, stretching from central what is now Chile, to Patagonia in the south and from the Pacific Ocean to near the Atlantic in the east . Later on that territory were the republics of Chile and Argentina.
From 1542 with the founding of cities and strongholds, the English began to militarily occupy the Mapuche territory, which creates a strong cohesive strength of a Mapuche people. It is in this context that the great leaders recognized as Calfulikam, Peleftraru, and our great leader Lientur Mapuche Leftraru. During this period our people's resistance was not defeated, even the English Crown to recognize the independence of the Mapuche nation, as established in treaties known as parliaments, the most important of Quilín, in 1641, which officially recognized the Bio border Bío between the two sovereignties, which was again reaffirmed in Negrete Parliament in 1803, the context in which it begins to form the Republic of Chile, following the independence of the Mapuche nation until 1881 in a territorial approximately ten million hectares .
Later, as was a constant in much of Latin America, once it consolidates the emerging nation states, is gradually beginning to occupy the territories of indigenous peoples once again leading to wars of extermination, a situation that is understood by the primary expansion of capitalism in the region and forcing the new republics to consolidate the independence structures metropolis under an economic conception of non-dependence. This largely explains why the republics of Chile and Argentina defined and carried out a military occupation of extermination in Araucanía, which eventually culminated in the military defeat of our people by the year 1881-83, being robbed of our people their ancestral territory in an approximate figure of 500 000 hectares.
We are an occupied people in all, our people-nation is a people under occupation, domination and dependence on the Chilean government to date, robbed territorially and still stands, survive and resist the same at about 500 000 hectares. That is, on our land rights and political facts and figures speak for themselves, justifying the validity of claims of territory and autonomy for the Mapuche Nation.
In recent decades, especially now, our people continue to resist, despite the whole situation, highlighting the massive exodus from poverty communities associated product the lack of land and loss of identity in communities survive despite living with dignity "arreduccionados" and still be constantly threatened against the onslaught of the interests of a capitalist state that through its policies of territorial only have resulted in poverty, misery, exclusion and gradual destruction of our communities. It is well to say that the Chilean state, the pair of favoring the oligarchy has always pursued policies and dominant colonial order aimed at upholding the rule of oppression, allowing only the forced integration, and means that we are already almost a century in which the Mapuche demands are applied and measures of short-term care, never in-depth solutions to enable the less viable the territorial and political reconstruction for our people.
predatory capitalism
Today the Chilean State is a capitalist because he has taken extreme neoliberal economic model that is based on productive activities, which are exploited indiscriminately, such as the agricultural sectors, copper, fisheries and forestry. It is in the specific case and the overwhelming forestry development in southern Chile, where we found many of the underlying reasons of the conflict between our people and the Chilean government, since policies are State which have always benefited the oligarchy and now expressed in the powerful transnational economic groups continue to exploit our ancestral territory, which has resulted in enormous costs for our people. In turn, the territorial encroachment has not ceased, and the dictatorship and the Concertación continued the violent seizure of most of the Mapuche land that remained in the hands of our people.
In short, what is now called Araucanía has become controlled by large economic groups indiscriminately exploit not only our ancestral territory and its resources, but are the true owners of the power of domination on our people and poor people Mapuche of Chile. Therefore, we say openly that after the Mapuche conflict are the Angelini group, owner of Forestal Arauco, the Matte, CMPC and Mininco owners, the Mitsubishi group, Endesa Chile, the Shell Group, the landowners associated with the SNA and ultimately mining investors as the group Santa Barbara and Farkas.
El Pueblo Mapuche Nation-
previous reality, plotted briefly, is what led to the mid-90 hard our people resume the process of resistance. It is in this context that the Coordinator of Communities in Conflict Arauco Malleco (CAM), Mapuche territorial organization that initially raised rebuild the historic Butalmapu in this area. CAM is to be given a more advanced expression in the Mapuche movement in fighting. In fact, CAM strongly raises the reconstruction of Pueblo Mapuche nation-and what would be the most important qualitative leap, is defined to develop a large Mapuche national liberation process, an issue that clearly alerts the system and Creole and transnational capital. Is developing a consistent strategy and political practice, consisting of going to motivate the Mapuche territorial control in conflict zones, primarily through the recovery of productive land and territorial defense. It's what gives the qualitative leap the Mapuche struggle, making it even more anti-capitalist and anti-oligarch, subsumed in a strong anti-colonial approach and the ultimate autonomy.
For a better understanding, we must say that the CAM strategy is implemented through two main elements. On one side is the Mapuche resistance, made definition according to the characteristics of the capitalist system that operates in the ancestral territory based on the destructive processes associated investment, concluding that he did not fight and resist the system by the communities would mean the destruction of many communities. Mapuche resistance, comprehensively understood, broadly, where the majority stake Mapuche mass and where the main objectives are the promotion of culture and ways of better living in the communities. On the other hand there is the reconstruction of nation-Pueblo Mapuche, starting with a project of re-articulation of communities and the gradual development of a territorial and political control which allows repositioning Mapuche stronger all the aspects that we hold dear as Mapuche. From these building blocks to create the conditions for creating the basis for a proposal for national liberation, which justifies all actions to develop communities and their most committed activists, the weichafe. In turn, these elements would be developing a thought more doctrinaire, ideologically and politically Mapuche release.
Counterinsurgency in Araucanía
is this approach and their particular practice that alerts the power of domination, both regional and central level, forcing the Chilean government to develop enforcement strategies within the framework of classic that has operated in Chile to curb the just struggles of the oppressed in general and of our people in particular.
To achieve the necessary social and political stability and thus ensure the functioning of the capitalist economy that builds upon the territorial control of the State in Wallmapuche, the dominating power has been forced to develop a policy of repression and persecution of the Mapuche communities in conflict and to the most committed and consistent in the fight. The Chilean government has made clear the central elements of the insurgency to deal with the Mapuche struggle, aiming at the heart of its policy of repression in the CAM as well as more militant and autonomous communities of the Mapuche movement. This repressive policy of the State has two edges, one side is seen to police forces that provide direct protection to capitalist interests in the area, mainly to forestry, which has led straight to the militarization of the conflict zones expressed in installation of two separate camps within forest lands and the protection of productive tasks and transfer of wood, which also includes fixed-point positions, patrols and raids in communities, as well as a thick intelligence work and police infiltration. Then there are the lines of direct repression, including raids, murder of Mapuche activists, persecution and imprisonment at the most consistent and committed leadership. Fundamental issue in this strategy has been repressive media manipulation, that the last time was with real campaign against the Mapuche cause was held by means of communication to service economic and political right in this country, which has deepened with the current right-wing government. It is in this socio-political context which leads to the reemergence of state terrorism in Mapuche territory, specifically expressed in the militarization, the constant raids, the police cordon in the mobilized communities and the presence of right-wing paramilitary groups who, like white guards acting with impunity protecting the interests of landowners and forestry companies. Handling media
Handling the media has intentionally distorted the facts, a key issue for the groups in power since objective is to reduce the Mapuche struggle and terrorist criminal acts in order to prosecute and punish indiscriminately. In this context, the State has chosen to pursue a policy of criminalization of the Mapuche cause, which has resulted recently in a series of arrests of community members and leaders of the Mapuche cause, especially those that embody stronger ideological and political approaches of resistance and liberation. However, it is understood that behind these repressive policies are the national and transnational big business, who are the real supporters of official violence against the Mapuche and ultimately responsible for using the state and their institutions to suppress and persecute the just struggle of the Mapuche Nation-.
The criminalization of Mapuche demands alone explain the absurd application of laws such as the Patriot Act and Homeland Security of the State, as well as military justice, leaving its members with impunity. The intended application of these judicial aberrations specifically aims to find sentences arbitrarily on the understanding that all trials are political, persecution of our ideas and approaches, giving effect to spurious lawsuits to improper procedures and the impossibility of fair trial.
State Terrorism Anti Terrorism Law with the figure of the faceless witnesses including, the two indictments, the abuse process, cover-ups at the trial grotesque product of political assemblies supported by tax police anti Mapuche aim to put in jail the most compromised weichafe our people. Thus we understand our current situation, suffer political persecution, were arrested and brought to trial, which lacked all the elements that substantiate the legal aspects, were sentenced by a court under political pressure from business interests, the sentence was already a secret loudly before trial, even as the press was vociferous fascist (El Mercurio) a verdict. That is, the court's decision seemed more to be part of the definition of central political power.
The reasons for this sentence (20 to 25 years in prison) lie in the reality described, especially realizing that we are in the right socio-political context, a scenario that allows for more kinds of injustice not only to our people but for all those who fight for their rights.
The sentence was essentially political and our membership of the CAM, because Mapuche leaders and take strength and commitment to the struggle of our people. It was a condemnation of our position autonomy, to our definitions, which are thousands of pu pu ka peñi Lamnian our people. It is true: we did not have a fair trial, the conviction was based only on the testimony of a witness secret or faceless, there was no evidence or scientific or any kind, the prosecution presented no consistency of the facts, there was no logical relationship them and nothing to prove a single part in the events. The conviction was political
to belong and be present in the processes of territorial and political recovery of communities in the area of \u200b\u200bLleu Lleu. The sentence is part of a larger strategy of repression against the Mapuche movement that operates in Lleu Lleu, thus ensuring forestry and mining investments in this area.
The sentence intends to seek a stop to the proposal that we embody, ranging from Mapuche more dignified attitude to fight for culture and national identity Mapuche fundamentals to dream and achieve our much desired freedom, the National Liberation Mapuche.
for Land and Autonomy for the Mapuche Nation.
Weuwain - Marrichiweu
Petu mongolein, Petu mapucheñelein
HECTOR. Carrillanca Llaitul
Weichafe Mapuche Nation
PPM (Mapuche Political Prisoners)
18 days of hunger strike
Note: To date it appears this issue of PF, Hector Llaitul, Ramón Llanquileo, Joseph and Jonathan Huenuche Huillical-convicted to 25 years in prison on first and 20 other years, serve 30 days on hunger strike in prison in Angol.
(Published in "Punto Final", Issue No. 731, April 15, 2011
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