Chile's Mapuche people are resorting to increasingly radical tactics to reclaim their ancestral land from exploitive industriesIt is late autumn in southern Chile, and in the region of Araucanía, the leaves have turned copper and gold. But on the road to the mist-shrouded town of Lumaco, the hills are covered with rows of charred pines."We burned these forests as an act of legitimate resistance against the extractive industries that have oppressed the Mapuche people," says Hector Llaitul. "If we make their business unprofitable they move on, allowing us to recover our devastated lands and rebuild our world." Continue reading...
'We burned the forest': the indigenous Chileans fighting loggers with arson
14. června 2018 11:01
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/14/chile-mapuche-indigenous-arson-radical-environmental-protest
Zdroj: The Guardian