During this day, the Mapuche Lavkenche Resistance (RML) claimed responsibility for the arson attack recorded last Thursday, which left 33 machines destroyed in the province of Arauco, Biobío region, accusing that the company in question damages the environment added to the demand for the freedom of the Mapuche prisoners.
It should be noted that according to what was reported, a group of 40 subjects entered the Tramsa company, in the Los Álamos commune, intimidated the workers there with firearms and then burned the machinery present in the place.
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“We take responsibility for the sabotage in the Los Ríos sector, Los Álamos commune, which left 33 aggregate and forest equipment destroyed by a column of 40 weichaves from our organization. With this action, we vindicate our Mapuche political prisoners kidnapped in the different prisons. installed in Wallmapu,” the group said in a statement.
In addition, they stated the reasons for such action are due to the “damage caused by the company Tramsa, directed by Juan Ramirezhas carried out in the Trongol River, whose waters have been intervened for years by their capitalist machinery that destroys the flora and fauna of this area of Nahuelbuta, irreversibly affecting Mapuche life and the poor Chilean peasant people that inhabit it”.
“Attacking this task meant attacking Forestal Arauco of the Angelini group, whose company responds to this extractivist chain. Tramsa has always responded to the interests of this forestry, for years making roads for its tasks, destroying our mapu. It has dried up the tributaries of the rivers, changing the course of its waters, thereby killing the itrovil Mapuche monk and the lives of the peoples who depend on the Trongol River,” said the document issued by the RML.
Message to the President
The Lavkenche Mapuche Resistance also expressed a message to the “winka government of Boric”, affirming that “capitalist development is not compatible with Mapuche life, that the forestry activities have an end date in Wallmapu, because we will continue expelling them, and that the rivers they are free, as we Mapuche are”.
“We salute the different Mapuche sister organizations, the Lov and Resistencia communities that embrace the weichan and invite them to embrace unity based on the Mapuche yamuwun and kelluwun, understanding our differences but being able to agree on ties and principles that allow us to advance in the recovery of the Mapuche territory and national reconstruction,” they maintained.
They also demanded that the government “immediately transfer Stephen Carrera Y YerkoMaril to the Lebu prison and the withdrawal of the complaint in Mapuche cases and the freedom of all Mapuche political prisoners, added to annulment, fair trial and freedom for the PPM of Elicura”.
In conclusion, they support “the Mapuche communities in Resistencia of the Gulf of Arauco in their fight against the wind farm that Forestal Arauco intends to install in their territory.”
