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Reform To Chile’s Anti-terrorism Law Begins In Light of Mapuche Hunger Strike |
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Written by Kara Frantzich
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Wednesday, 08 September 2010 06:22 |
 Government hoping to appease strikers as Bicentennial approaches
As the Mapuche hunger strike passes its 58th day in protest of Chile’s Anti-terrorism Law, the government took the first step to change the law on Tuesday when President Sebastián Piñera signed proposals to modify the Antiterrorism Law and the military justice code.
The Anti-terrorism Law has been applied to Mapuche people for crimes committed in their campaigns to reclaim ancestral lands. There has been an ongoing debate about the severity of the law and of its indiscriminate application to the Mapuche.
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Chile’s Government Turns To Church for Mapuche Negotiations |
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Written by Kara Frantzich
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Monday, 06 September 2010 07:08 |
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Piñera to propose changes to Anti-terrorism Law this week in effort to end hunger strike
As the Mapuche hunger strike nears its sixtieth day, Chile’s government has asked church leaders to help resolve the strike.
“I want to ask all people of good will, especially the Catholic Church, and all other churches, to help us end the hunger strike,” President Sebastian Piñera said on Friday.
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Chile Proposes Bills To Resolve Mapuche Hunger Strike |
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Written by Dustin Zarnikow
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 07:24 |
Health problems of strikers increase while three incarcerated youth join the cause
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Hunger Strike Mapuches Demand Negotiations With Government |
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Written by Sasha Magill
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Monday, 30 August 2010 06:37 |
 Physical problems reported
Thirty-two imprisoned Mapuche activists reached the 50th day of their hunger strike over the weekend. The Mapuches were jailed for acts of violence under an anti-terrorism law created during the regime of dictator Augusto Pinochet.
The majority are members of CAM (Arauco Malleco Co-ordination), an organization formed in 1998 known for its ongoing attempts to recover Mapuche territory.
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Chile Creates Commission To Address Rapa Nui Demands |
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Written by Dustin Zarnikow
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Friday, 27 August 2010 07:14 |
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After a several weeks of demonstrations, Chile’s government and protestors belonging to the Rapa Nui indigenous group have set up a workshop to solve ongoing issues, including land rights issues on Easter Island.
Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter and other government officials met recently at La Moneda, the president palace in Santiago with the island’s city council, the mayor , and members of the Development Committee to initiate workshop plans.
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Civil Union Legislation Endorsed By Chile’s Supreme Court |
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Written by Kayla Ruble
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Monday, 23 August 2010 06:29 |
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Virgina Cortez Jara lived with her partner Pedro Pizarro Valenzuela for 18 years. The two never married because Valenzuela had not divorced from his former wife. Then, when he died in April 2004, Cortez learned that Valenzuela’s first family would receiving his US$300,000 inheritance – and that she would be left penniless.
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Murder Case of Chilean Senator To Be Reopened |
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Written by Ricardo Pommer
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Monday, 06 September 2010 07:05 |
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Both major political coalitions agree to reopen the investigation into the death of Sen. Jaime Guzmán, founder of the UDI
The recently aired TV interview with one of the men responsible for the 1991 assassination of Sen. Jaime Guzmán has given new life to the investigation of the crime and reopened old political wounds in Chile.
On April 1, 1991, Sen. Guzmán - founder of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) party and an important civilian collaborator with the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet - was assassinated as he was leaving the East Campus of Universidad Católica de Chile law school.
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Chile’s Senate President Urges Intervention To Forestall Mapuche Hunger-Strike Deaths |
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Written by Steve Anderson
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Monday, 30 August 2010 23:49 |
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Senate President Jorge Pizarro on Monday urged President Sebastián Piñera to begin talks with 32 Mapuche activists who have been on a hunger strike for almost two months.
“The state cannot allow these men to die,” said Pizarro, who met Monday with Lorena Fries, head of the National Human Rights Institute and with Senators Patricio Walker and Jaime Quintana.
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Chile’s President Visits Araucanía To Announce Aid Program |
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Written by Kara Frantzich
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Friday, 27 August 2010 07:26 |
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Says controversial Barrancones energy project has been asked to move, but remains silent on Mapuche hunger strike
President Sebastián Piñera visited the southern region of Araucania (IX) on Thursday to announce Plan Araucanía, a project that will invest more than US$400 million into the region, which suffers from chronic low employment and poverty.
The government plans to distribute the money over the course of four years for specific projects, including the eradication of child illiteracy, giving 1,000 families electricity, creating more access to running water and building 186 miles of roads.
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International Human Rights Leader Visits Chile |
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Written by Kara Frantzich
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 06:39 |
 “Human rights are not just a moral issue, they’re also a legal issue,” Esteban Beltrán tells the Santiago Times
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UN Agency Rep Sent To Chile’s South To Discuss Mapuche Rights |
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Written by Dustin Zarnikow
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Friday, 20 August 2010 04:51 |
 International Labor Organization reviews progress on indigenous convention
International Labor Organization (ILO) Standards Director Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry is meeting in Temuco this week with Araucanía Region (IX) officials to discuss the lack of progress in implementing the ILO’s Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention.
The meeting occurs in the midst of a hunger strike by Mapuche prisoners and just after a nation wide demonstration on behalf of the hunger strikes that resulted in more than 100 arrests.
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