Commenting the news

The news story which has impacted me on this year has been the Mapuche conflict, a not declared war in La Araucanía. This event has a long historical data in Chile, beginning the belligerence when Spanish conquers invaded América, destroying the pre-Columbian culture, and later 1536 when Diego de Almagro arrived to Chile and started a fight of never ending. This sad story is local, occurs in southern Chile, in La Araucanía region. Firstly were Spanish people who stole an alien land in the name of God and their kingdom. Centuries later the Chilean state does it in the name of sovereignty.

I have seen this sad story (that is not any news), through all my life, I think that everybody has seen it and believed it as news but this goes beyond a novelty. We have watched this unnecessary story by books, television, internet, newspaper and by all kinds of communication transmission.

This year the Chilean mass media have put more emphasis on those facts and they portray it as a no sense fighting, saying many times that there is not Rule of Law. However, before that there existed a State called Chile, there was a community called Mapuche, owner of rich lands which soon were the target of foreign buyers. From which point of view a suddenly taking of territories is seen as a legal act? Maybe it is normal for state, but if at any moment you are in your own house inherited by your grandparents and suddenly police enters in the name of state and takes off all which you thought belonged to you. It is very disconcerting at this example. How much for Mapuche people?

Many times we have seen how the government takes Mapuche signs and stamps them on coins and banknotes and both they cannot understand a legitimate defense from the pre-Columbian people when it is normal they feel violated and infringed.

For all Chile it must been a topic to talk because some times there is not respect to the only pre- Columbian which has fought against foreigners over centuries and centuries, and that is what we are for them, foreigners.