On Wednesday, in southern Chile, men wearing hoods burned down a school and a medical clinic, as well as a church and several cars, due to the ongoing conflict between Mapuche natives.
According to Police Colonel Patricio Martnez, a radical Mapuche group is alleged to have set Traiguen on fire in the La Araucana Region.
Unknown individuals were given accelerating liquids by the Police Communications Department and proceeded with the burning of a rural posting, an ambulance, a private vehicle, a school, neighboorhood office, and traiguen church at dawn.
Three vehicles in total were burned at the Medical Center, leading to injuries on a paramedic’s face and neck.
The scene was covered with a canvas on which ‘Resistencia Mapuche Milleco,’ a radical Mapuche group claimed responsibility for the incident and called upon “racist institutions to leave Mapuche land”.
Traiguen, a town of almost 20,000 people, is located in the La Araucana Region, near Temuco. This region has many Mapuche settlements.
Diverse radical groups are responsible for fueling the conflict, seizing and burning roads, houses and public buildings and damaging agricultural and forest equipment.
Gabriel Boric’s leftist Government militarized the region, and a few months ago launched a “peace-and-understanding” commission.
In the past 25 years, the Mapuches land dispute is responsible for the death of twenty people.
According to government data, there were 390 terrorist attacks in April of this year compared with 1,160 in 2022.
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