[June 2022, Wallmapu] News from the Mapuche struggle against the Chilean State
Here’s a collection of different actions claimed by radical Mapuche groups in Wallmapu, against the Chilean state, in June 2022. Some of these actions were collected from mainstream media. For each, we will try to provide a link/picture to the actual claim/pamphlet and a translation of it.
June 1, Perquenco: Lof Llancamil Challakura recovered territory that had been usurped by a large landowner. Communique in Spanish on mapuexpress:
Lof Llancamil Challakura hace ingreso al predio usurpado por el latifundista Patricio Navarrete
June 2, Lumaco: the ORT – Anganamun of the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM) torched 3 machines (a Bell, a skidder, a container) of forestry company Mininco.
« Foresters out of Wallmapu! Armed resistance against the Capital and criminal State! »
June 5, Vilcún: unknown persons torched an excavating machine in an agricultural property and left two canvas alluding to Mapuche territorial claims & containing slogans against Chile government agency Conadi.
June 6, Lumaco: the ORT – Anganamun of the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM) torched a logging tower & a container of forestry company Mininco.
« Foresters out of Wallmapu! Armed resistance against the Capital and criminal State! »
June 7, Cañete: 3 houses were set on fire, destroying 2 and doing considerable damage to the third, and a canvas was left on site to demand justice for murdered Mapuche community member Eloy Alarcón.
« For peñi* Eloy Elarcón Manquepán, Mapuche justice for fallen weychave**, ¡ wewaiñ*** ! » [TN: * Mapuche man ** Mapuche fighters *** Mapuche expression meaning “we will win”]
https://noticiasdelaguerrasocial.wordpress.com/2022/06/13/salida-incendiaria-en-macul-con-grecia-reivindicacion-de-la-celula-warriache-matias-catrileo/
June 11, Collipulli: 3 trucks & a van were torched, a canvas was left on site. It reads: « Freedom to all Mapuche political prisoners in Angol and Temuco. Luis Nahuelqueo, Moroni Ancalaf, Matías Ancalaf, Miguel Torres Toro, Fredy Marileo and Erick Montoya. Justice for fallen weichafes Liempi, Catrillanca Marchant Eloy Manquepan Marileo. United with weichafe in sabotage. »
June 16, Victoria (La Araucanía): Resistencia Mapuche Malleco set on fire & destroyed a catholic chapel.
« Freedom for the Mapuche political prisoners. RMM. Newen werken epu leufu. »
June 16, Curacautín: Resistencia Mapuche Malleco torched a family inn of Fuad Chahín (former president of the Christian Democratic Party), left 2 canvases on site.
« Chahín family & all latifundio out of Wallmapu. Eloy Manquepán present. RMM »
June 18, Collipulli: the Newen Kurra community in alliance with the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco started a process of territorial recovery in domains that had been usurped by forestry companies Mininco, Arauco & Masisa.
June 18, San Juan de la Costa: radical Mapuche torched forestry machines of AnChile, left a canvas and a Mapuche flag on site.
« Fore$try out of Wallmapu. With the strength of Wenteyao, Millalikan, Pukatriwekeche*. We rise in weichan [TN: struggle]. – Gallito Katrilef – Toño Marchant – Eloy Manquepan Present in Weichan » [TN: * important spirits & figures of Mapuche mythology] »
« War on Norway. Statkraft out of Pilmaiken [TN: where the hydraulic plant is being built]. Pu fallen weichafe present. Freedom for Mapuche Political Prisoner. »
Presos políticos mapuche de Lebu y Concepción comienzan huelga de hambre indefinida
Mapuche Political Prisoners of Lebu and Concepción Begin Indefinite Hunger Strike
June 29, Cholchol: flaming barricades were erected at Koiwe Painemal against the visit of powerful businessman Juan Sutil in the region, a march also happened on June 30 in Temuco against his extractivist project to build 3 reservoirs on a river. The following declaration was sent to Radio Lafken Mawida: « Out Sutil and his fruit projects. Out Jaime Muro and his foresters. For the defense of the Cholchol river. » For more info on this specific struggle, a declaration of the Coordination Mapuche Inkayaiñ Chol Chol lewfu for a June 17 march against the project can be read on La Zarzamora and a report on the June 30 march as well (both in Spanish).
June 30, Capitan Pastene: in solidarity with the hunger strikes of Mapuche political prisoners Cesar Millanao, Orlando Saez, Oscar Pilquiman & Emilio Berkhof, and of Victor Llanquileo, Weychan Auka Mapu (WAM) destroyed 3 machines & a forestry van at a subcontractor of a Mininco forestry estate. Communique with more attacks in Spanish on Radio Kurruf.
WAM informa: múltiples sabotajes en respaldo a huelga de hambre de los PPM en Lebu y Concepción