An armed group carried out an arson attack at dawn this Friday on a farm located in the commune of Victoria, region of La Araucanía. The Mapuche Malleco Resistance group burned two forest machines and left a canvas against the Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalvein which he is rebuked for the Mapuche political prisoners.
“Now you forget that there are Mapuche political prisoners. In 2010 you supported the strike, now you don’t know. Freedom for the Mapuche political prisoners in Angol and in all prisons. Out with the foresters and landowners”, the canvas pointed out.
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The undersecretary said last week that “the people who are today convicted of a crime have been convicted by our judicial system, therefore, they are convicted of a crime that is typified in the Penal Code. From that perspective they are not political prisoners.”
Answer from Monsalve
Monsalve, during his visit to La Araucanía, indicated that “those who take the path of violence, tell them that there is another path, that it seems to us that the path of dialogue is the path that allows us to face the structural problem that exists in the Region of Araucanía and in the south of Chile”.
In addition, he emphasized that the Government “is not going to be intimidated and will continue on the path of dialogue.”
“A conflict between the Chilean State and an original people that is the Mapuche people, that is a political problem, it is a real, historical political problem, which is based on the denial, on the exclusion of a people,” he added.
“I want to insist again, there is a political problem here, there are native peoples in Chile, that is not recognized today in any of our legal systems and the principle of dialogue is to start by recognizing that there are others who have different histories, different worldviews, different thoughts. different traditions. and we want to recognize those others, who are the first nations in Chile”, he concluded.
