written by Peter Cayuqueo
The Mapuche strike in prison just turned 65 days. And finally seems to be breaking down the information blockade, the apathy of the authorities and the chronic lack of the political class for the Mapuche in Chile, Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga. And what makes Neruda Añaza warned: "La Araucana is good, smells good. The Araucanian are bad, smell bad. "
is this racism that surfaces from time to time in the country and without much distinction of class or social position. Say crosses transversely from an elevation 1,000 to 0.0. From La Dehesa Cerro Navia. From English district to the Population Lanin. And of course, is that one thing to be poor and quite another to be Indian, no, that if not more respect! Is the complex reality of a society like Chile, lost in their identity and in every opinion poll ends yet again contradicting itself. Do you think Mapuche legitimate claim? "Yes" The State must return their land? "No". Blessed settlers who were to play us!
If Chile is bipolar, its political class could not be less. Here we have the Coalition, tearing clothes for 20 years on the town without addressing "properly" claim Mapuche. Tohá Carolina girl generational change command in the conglomerates, made last week a well-publicized mea culpa. "It was wrong to have applied the Patriot Act," he said ruefully on the outskirts of Temuco prison the former Palace spokeswoman. Soledad Alvear, a former minister of justice, would do the same interviewed on the news channel TVN. The car list goes on and on ethnic flagellants from the kick-off given by the daughter of former minister of Salvador Allende, Jorge Pizarro, Osvaldo Andrade, José Antonio Viera-Gallo, Patrick Walker, Andres Zaldivar, Eduardo Frei and a long list of former authorities and individuals from the coalition, all converted now staunch defenders of the indigenous cause and interethnic relations friendly. "Enough to run over our Mapuche brothers," he hears them every day and almost in unison in radio, print and television. "I do not understand", as she said Tarzan.
But there is someone who has saved sacramental silence in these 65 days of forced fasting. It is the former President Michelle Bachelet, head of the criminal complaints for violation of the Patriot Act that triggered ultimately this hunger strike. During his tenure, Bachelet made evident and better than anyone the Chilean double standard in the art. Victim of the dictatorship, hesitated to criminalize the social demands of the communities in the south. And all this by using the same law that Pinochet was merciless in the 80's against his family. A first and Patricio Felipe Harboe Rosende later, both despicable and unscrupulous characters, accounted to be the visible face of a repressive strategy unleashed. And while both seemed to enjoy it, actually responsible was none other than Bachelet. This reminded the writer José Saramago, within the framework of his first presidential trip to Europe in early 2006. "Do me the favor of looking to the Mapuche Chileans older," and shot him without anesthesia Saramago part of a gala in his honor in Madrid.
Portuguese Nobel's request was not accidental. Across the Atlantic, thousands of miles away, dozens of dungeons populated rural Mapuche Chileans accused of "terrorist offenses" that rip off more of a laugh at the hairy ranks of Al Qaeda. It was in May 2006, Bachelet announced that his government will "not re-apply the Terrorism Act in the context of the Mapuche social protest, thus demarcate his predecessor, former President Ricardo Lagos. It happened after that controversial tour, marked by demonstrations against him in various capitals of the Old Continent. And only after 54 days of fasting of four political prisoners held at that time in jail of Angol. Needless to say little or nothing that would last veranito of San Juan. Well know the 34 Mapuche on strike today, all jailed for "terrorism" in the second half of his mandate applauded. The club would soon take the place of the carrots. And the rest, as always in these cases, we know is history.
"I take criticism. Those who had a conviction about the Mapuche cause and defense of indigenous rights, we lost the fight within the government, "said Paula Quintana Monday, former Minister of Mideplan. "I know personally President Michelle Bachelet was never party to implement the Patriot Act, "said Carolina Tohá meanwhile in the second. "Here they make bad decisions. Not weighed the complex, delicate and the effect was to occupy this tool. And these errors are due largely to the decisions that were taken from a public security policy only, with a view from the Ministry of Interior and not comprehensive, "topped the helm of PPD. "Bachelet victim of repressive starts Pérez Yoma, Harboe and Roseberry? No mistake. The agenda is clear in the Coalition, shielding the former president for the duration of the storm Mapuche. No expose. Do not remove the ring. Do not answer uncomfortable questions. No explanations to the public. Best moves to stuttering.
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