The Coordinator Arauco Malleco (CAM), one of the most radical Mapuche groups in southern Chile, issued a statement in which she considers that “the election of (Gabriel) Boric falls within a context marked by the recycling of an old assimilationist institution that has failed in the Wallmapu” and qualifies her government as one that has “a progressive discourse on indigenous matters nationally and internationally that blinds lovers of this new government 'progress' and 'good vibes”.
In this regard, he confirmed that he will remain in belligerence with the Chilean state: “We are not going to dialogue with those who have as their ultimate goal the annihilation of our people, such as Monsalve and company. In the midst of so much confusion, we reaffirm our military political path of the weychan (struggle),” they announced
This Sunday's message from the Mapuche group came after an arson attack in Contulmo, located 637 kilometers from Santiago, which left 15 houses and two vans burned by 40 hooded men, resulting in an extraordinary police meeting at the presidential palace of La Moneda. The arson attack was awarded to the Mapuche Lavkenche Resistance (RML), a different Mapuche organization from the one that rejected dialogue with the Government.
In the document in which RML awarded the burning of houses and vans, they demand conditions regarding the legal status of Mapuche political prisoners, in addition, they warn that they give 48 hours to comply with their requirements, otherwise “new mobilizations will be organized in all territories”.
After the extraordinary meeting, the Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve said that “we do not dialogue with those who threaten and use violence”, assuring that “we take seriously any statement that poses a threat to the safety of the population”.
He added, “we don't belittle it, we take it seriously, that's why we had a police committee today, precisely to take measures to anticipate the state's capabilities to protect the population,” Monsalve reported.
Although the attack was by the Mapuche Lavkenche Resistance, the Coordinator Arauco Malleco, another Mapuche organization, responded to the statements of the undersecretary of the interior.
The CAM statement
Titled “There is no other way but the weychan (to fight), a statement by the Coordinator Arauco Malleco - CAM in the face of the new assimilationist and indigenous tactics of the elites and Gabriel Boric”, the statement from the Mapuche organization begins.
In the declaration they assured that the presence of the reserved seats of indigenous peoples in the Constitutional Convention and the work on the plurinationality of the nation has “clear political and ideological limitations”. It should be recalled that the constituent body has 17 members of the reserved seats, corresponding to 10 indigenous peoples and from the Mapuche people there is the machi Francisca Linconao, an ancestral and spiritual figure for the people it represents.
In the statement, the CAM points out that the institutional work carried out by certain Mapuche sectors with the Government “must be read as a rearrangement of the forms of legitimacy and colonial hegemony that big capital establishes in the Wallmapu in order to corner and suffocate the revolutionary expressions of Mapuche resistance and not as a sign of political will to resolve the historical conflict”.
They added that “we see that the political and bureaucratic design recycled to address the conflict with the Mapuche nation is doomed to failure. Emphasis will be placed on the theory of “ways”, which serves to reinforce an oppressive institutionality with a discourse that in advance criminalizes expressions of resistance. We will seek to co-opt the maximum number of people who have belonged to the Mapuche movement; there will be historical sectors and lonko (head of the Mapuche community) of the weychan (struggle) who will be seduced by negotiations lightly and will brave principles by plaintive gifts”.
Finally, they pointed out that “it is for something that we have defined ourselves as a revolutionary Mapuche and have fought for years the territorial expressions of the capitalist and colonial state”. “As CAM, we are not going to dialogue with those who have as their ultimate goal the annihilation of our people, such as Monsalve and company.”
“In the midst of so much confusion, we reaffirm our military political path of the weychan (struggle),” they concluded.
On Monday, April 4, the Government will announce whether they will file complaints, and if necessary under certain laws, over the attack in Contulmo.
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