Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Mapuches didn't accept the government's proposition

Today the hunger strike that 34 mapuche citizen started 80 days ago, hasn’t found any solution. Mapuche prisoner’s spokesperson Rodrigo Curipán, said yesterday that they rejected the government’s offer, because of the Public Ministry position on that theme (the Public Ministry ruled out the idea of closing the lawsuit over the mapuche’s prisoners). This institution also had the intention of keeping applying the Antiterrorist Law. That’s why mapuche’s demanded to the Public Ministry and the Judiciary to become part of the negotiation committee. The Concepcion’s Monsignor Ricardo Ezzati, who had been the mediator between the strikers and the government, said that he had carried out his cycle in the negotiation and called to the other state powers to help in the solution. On the other hand, the Secretary of the Interior, Rodrigo Hinzpeter, pointed out that the government had done all that was in their hands, and that the mapuche’s petitions were going too far.
In my point of view, the meaningful thing is that the government hadn’t been capable of making a global proposition of reform in the Antiterrorist Law, ignoring the structural problem and assuming it as a particular decision of people that tries to attempt to their own lives. For example, Ena Von Baer said that if some mapuche citizen would die now, it would be caused by their own intransigent position.
The people involved in this news were those who were in the negotiation committee: Ricardo Ezzati, the prisoner’s spokesperson, and Claudio Alvarado, who is the sub secretary of the General Secretary of the Presidency.
I think that this piece of news will affect in my community, firstly by the position that this hunger strike had shown from the part of government, which has practically ignored the theme and the political issue beyond the fact. It’s worrying that legitimate demands in a democracy have kept invisible and ignored from part of the mass media too.

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