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Extreme race in chile3/26/2023 ![]() ![]() One such case was Camilo Catrillanca, who was shot dead in 2018 during a police operation that sparked widespread fury among Chileans. Mapuche leaders say that, like black Americans, they have lost a disproportionate number of their own young men to police violence. Mapuche activists have gone on hunger strike, occupied and burned forestry and farming lands, and cut off highways to demand territories they say were stolen from them. “The Mapuche, which means “Earth People” in the Mapudungun tongue, make up about 10% of Chile’s population of 19 million and mainly work as subsistence farmers in the Araucania region – one of the poorest areas of the country. RELATED CONTENT: Tales of Resistance: “The Cheapest Gasoline in the World” Photo by Andre VltchekĪccording to Thomas Reuters Foundation News report from 17 June 2020: Under the cover of “the fight against COVID-19”, the Chilean extreme right-wing government of Sebastian Piñera unleashed a new stage of the war against Mapuche people, a war that even some foreign mass media outlets could not ignore anymore. It determines who gets what jobs, and who ends up living in inescapable misery. In Chile, race plays an extremely important role. The majority of Chilean ‘revolutionaries’ feel much more at home in Miami, Paris, or Rome than with their own oppressed people in such places as Puerto Saavedra or Temuco. ![]() It is a Western-style left, much closer to the defunct “anarcho-syndicalism” in the United States, than to Cuban, Venezuelan, or Bolivian pan-Latin American struggle. The Chilean Left has very little to do with the indigenous struggle. A new wave of European migrants was mainly settling in the south, pushing indigenous, native Mapuche people to the margins, and into misery. Even the Italians were not good enough for them. Throughout the 20th century, Chilean immigration policy was based on a determined effort to attract the whitest of whites, from Germans to Czechs, Croats, Swiss. “We are the English of Latin America.” This is how Chileans like to view themselves.Īnd they openly despise those who are not as white as they are: Peruvians, Bolivians, Haitians. And no one here is demanding the return of sea access to Bolivia, access which was literally stolen during the shameful “War of the Pacific,” during which Chile disgracefully joined forces with Great Britain against Bolivia and Peru. It appears that only the Chilean Communist Party has at least some sympathy with the plight of the Venezuelan people. Gone are the internationalist ideals of Allende’s era, gone is solidarity with other Latin American nations. Chile is a dreadfully racist place, although, as with many countries where racism thrives, it does not openly admit that it is. This story could be dismissed as an ugly anecdote, as something sick and unusual. Indignant, she took immediate action, barring the former employee’s entry to the compound and reporting the incident to the U.N. Her horrid outburst was reported, and it quickly reached the ECLAC head who happens to be a progressive Mexican scientist – Alicia Bárcena – who is a vocal admirer of AMLO, Hugo Chávez, Correa, and Lula. “That spicy nigger (‘el negro picante’) is the security head? I’m going to send him to the United States so that they can kill him there! I’m going to write to ‘El Mercurio’ newspaper! Who would think that this nigger could be a boss?” She clearly did not like this fact, and she exploded: The security head happened to be an African-Brazilian. The head of security approached her, trying to explain the procedure, which had recently toughened up, due to the outbreak of COVID-19. To her taste, the process was taking too much time, and she began honking. employee tried to enter ECLAC (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Santiago de Chile) to claim her pension in a bank inside the compound, her car was stopped by a U.N.
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