mapuche Archives - Toward Freedom

A view of the Villarrica volcano from the Huerquehue National Park in the Araucanía region of Chile / credit: Josefina Hepp

‘Only Way Out Is Emancipation’: Mapuche Ponder Future As Chile Rejects Constitution

Carole Concha Bell September 23, 2022 Carole Concha Bell

Chile’s population rejecting a proposed constitution on September 4 will hit hard one group: Indigenous people, who are socially and economically disadvantaged, thanks to generations of land dispossession and invisibility in Chile’s political landscape. Carole Concha Bell reports.

A Mapuche protest in Chile / credit: Jubileu Sul

West Complicit in Arming Chile to Violate Mapuche Rights

Carole Concha Bell December 20, 2021 Carole Concha Bell

Between former U.S.-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet’s terror laws being used to criminalize Mapuche elders and activists, the United States and the United Kingdom arming Chile’s security forces, and the failure of international agencies to treat the Mapuche conflict with urgency, the West appears complicit in the genocide of the Mapuche people.