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“We have called this Committee for Araucanía-Arauco, the Wallmapu, to be able to comprehensively face all the work that was materialized in the great Agreement for Peace and Development of La Araucanía that the President launched in the Ninth Region during 2020” said this Tuesday the Minister of Social Development, Karla Rubilar when announcing the creation of this social table.
However, the first field visit by government authorities after the announcement of the new policy for the Mapuche area was complex. The Secretary of State came to La Araucanía to participate in a Füta Trawün, which was marked by incidents, a change of scenery –from Carahue, where it was originally scheduled, to the Germán Becker Stadium in Temuco– and a barrage of criticism.
However, at the end of the instance, Rubilar said that he appreciated “the invitation of the lonkos, we came to listen with an open heart and an open mind.” In passing, he dismissed the questions about the lack of representativeness of the call. “There is not a single group that can be attributed the representativeness of the Mapuche people,” he added.
Mapuche protesters gathered on the outskirts of Germán Becker and, due to the increasing incidents, the meeting held by Rubilar had to be suspended at times. According Cooperative radioIt is estimated that around 80 protesters entered the compound, who confronted the Carabineros. An injured uniformed officer was reported.
Rubilar herself said about these disturbances that “the road is construction, this is the first seed of peace to reap justice.” “The mistrust of many who are outside is very justified, but we want to take firm steps towards realizing the demands of the Mapuche people,” he added, saying that President Sebastián Piñera himself sent a message to those present through a video.
In addition to Minister Rubilar, there was a representative from the Supreme Court and about 20 Mapuche community members at the meeting. There was also the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH), whose director, Sergio MiccoHe explained that they attended “as observers, as we always do when the Human Rights of the Mapuche people are in tension with the State.”
The absent
Although there were 20 Mapuche representatives at the meeting, the protesters who were abroad indicated that the representatives at the meeting, who are in dialogue with the Government, are not “known” and, therefore, will not respect what was agreed.
Ana Llao, werkén of the Ad Mapu organization, accused that it is a “clandestine meeting of friends”, for which he assured that they will not accept any agreement that is reached in it. “We cannot validate, since they have joined the heat of the suffering of our Mapuche prisoners,” he said. “The government no longer has the capacity to think,” he said. “They are not even lonkos, they are machis,” he added.
Aucán Huilcamán, a spokesman for Mapuche communities, assured through a statement that Minister Rubilar “was not received by any of the more than 3,000 traditional Mapuche communities settled with titles of mercy. Even as a result of the growing rejection that she has received from the Mapuche People, the delegate minister had to take refuge and shelter in the Germán Becker Stadium in the city of Temuco “.
“This unprecedented fact highlights a resounding failure of the government of President Sebastián Piñera in its relationship with the Mapuche People, where no traditional and ancestrally settled Mapuche community has not received it, confirms that they are not welcome to the territory of their Mapuche neighbors. (WALLMAPUCHE OR WALLMAPU) and reaffirms that there are underlying historical reasons for the tensions and controversies that the State itself has caused, omitting its institutional and political responsibility, “he explained.
“The government did not respond to the various reactions generated by its meeting with Machi and some Lonko in the government house. On that occasion, their meeting was classified as a communicational event, hasty and it was told that the good functioning of public policy from Biobío to the south would have been enough to address the situation of economic poverty of the participants of that meeting in the government house, “he concluded, assessing in the same way that the Government recognized the existence” of a neighboring territory, the territory called WALLMAPUCHE OR WALLMAPU, which provides an elementary argument to the process of territorial restitution and the implementation of Mapuche self-determination “.
While, Domingo Namuncura, National Indigenous Vice President of the PPD, also joined the criticism. “The failure of the Trawün de Carahue, called by the Government to address the Mapuche issue, allows us to think about the immaturity of this initiative, today widely questioned by the Mapuche social movement, ancestral authorities and even political and local government authorities. In fact, from the Municipality of Carahue an official complaint was raised for not having even been informed that this event would take place in their commune, which motivated – among other reasons – to reorganize the meeting in Temuco ”, he specified.
He added that “an authentic” dialogue “with the ancestral authorities of the Mapuche People is, first of all, a” political dialogue “, that is, political will and acting in good faith are needed to efficiently respond to the historical demands raised, to resolve preconditions and it is required to naturally decant in advance, between said ancestral authorities and the representative Mapuche organizations, the ideas that are part of a working table before holding a Parliament. History gives an account of the experiences that have existed and how they should be carried out. Otherwise, these types of events are distracting and confusing ”.
Namuncura also extended his questions yesterday in La Moneda, noting that “in the previous hours, different Mapuche organizations have expressed their rejection of this meeting due to their haste and very low representation of the ancestral authorities; and in the same way, his questioning of the idea of the “WallMapu Committee” announced yesterday in La Moneda, made up of ministers, undersecretaries and the mayor of La Araucanía to analyze “the situation of La Araucanía” and formulate proposals.
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