Mapuche Women in Chile: Criminalized for Defending Their Lands and Confronting Extractivism · Global Voices

These women face criminalization, arbitrary detentions and harassment for opposing forest and electrical industries in their territories. Cases such as Francisca Curihinca’s or the disappearance of Julia Chuñil, show a pattern of systematic violence. In an interview for the TeleSUR multiplatform, his daughter told “We want to deliver a letter to the president so he knows the injustice that is being committed. They have her imprisoned simply beca…

On February 11, the framework of the investigations into the perpetrators of the forest fires that struck Patagonia, the judiciary of Chubut simultaneously raided private homes, territories and media of various Mapuche communities, by order of the criminal judge of execution in Esquel, Jorge Criado, and prosecutor Carlos Cavallo. On Thursday, March 21, the regional Esquel Trevelin of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights (APDH), accompanied Is…