The Isabel Allende's literary merits are beyond dispute; but you need to make some observations about the national prize for literature. In all countries who watch this kind of prize is awarded in recognition of a lifetime devoted to writing and in any case, the eventual success of sales of a writer or a writer is confused with its potential international market - is it gold or two pennies, because that means confused goat and cabbage.
The award then becomes the subject of the controversy, but in Chile, since this is - earthquake included - rather than dirt, is then replaced by topical crude and banal that fills the television and almost all the spaces allowed . In the eyes of the world need to hide a fact, hide it, deny its existence because the 32 Mapuche who are facing a long hunger strike, endangering their lives, is something that pollutes the currency, which stands in a sort of intellectual debate crude and banal .
For most Chileans, be they authors, writers or people who are dedicated to the sport of "cilenitudine", the Mapuche do not exist, and if someone accepts the fact that the Mapuche have existed before the Europeans , consider them annoying because they do not accept their role as' ethnic furnishings "or because they are peasants whose only destiny is nothing more than to provide cheap labor.
Those carpets are good for household chores, as the Peruvian are cheaper, those Mapuche children are experts in gardening, plumbing, are those who castrate cats and wild plants that they understand. For two hundred years has been hidden, ignored, denied one of the dirty facts of our history: the looting, theft, usurpation of land belonging to that great man called the aggregation of the Mapuche people.
dubious declaration of independence, manipulated by the children and grandchildren of early settlers - can this be cause for celebration? - Until the recovery of a democracy conceived by the clique of the Pinochet dictatorship, the protests sacrosanct Mapuche have been ignored or relegated to the folders of the problems that are fixed over time. That is, when the Mapuche as a people will disappear as a nation as a race, as an integral part of American culture. Even during the thousand days of the Allende government faced is hardly the issue, relying on the benefits of an agrarian reform that took into account all of the feel of the Mapuche culture, and ignored their special relationship with the land and the habitats essential for the People of the Earth.
I am disgusted when, after a round of Peruvian brandy, and blondish blondish of all ages and social classes, they express pride in the joy of having a few drops of blood in the veins Mapuche. Then: "Come on must bring this writer, "and invite me to go and visit their land or their estates in the region of Araucania, Mapuche and because it sees the beautiful things that make the frame. "If we are lucky - they add - maybe see someone who plays the horn."
The hunger strike after a week cause dangerous changes in the body. It 'so obvious that a hunger strike that has lasted more than a month because of irrecoverable damage. The changes in heart rate and blood pressure, close to death, but the death of the Mapuche, a bit 'of men and women who survived the peace Araucanía. "I'm stubborn these Mapuche" he adds, refusing to passively accept the end of life, so stripped of their land, without which they do not know, can not and do not want to live.
In the Atacama Desert there are 33 miners imprisoned under a mountain. They are brave men who should not be under tons of stone if the mining company had complied with international standards of safety. Hours should be with their families in Chile if the need to respect the rules was not considered an attack on freedom of the market. Those miners and a real opportunity - because the laws are the masters in their use and consumption - that the company did not pay for the days I spent working there buried, and the days that remain buried there until they recover, This is part of the dirt in Chile, a property from this day on which the dictatorship has handed the country to the whims of the free market. A market that generates riches of doubtful origin, such as the current president. And this
this was concealed, denied, ignored by all those who ruled and glorifying strengthening the free market. It is disgusting the outbreak of patriotism crude and banal that the tragedy of the mines has caused. It 's disgusting to see people like Leonardo Farkas, that the perennial tan made millionaire in Miami, home and style as those of a Berlusconi or a Piñera, which give five million pesos to the families of miners locked up without any planning policy, of course. When those miners will be recovered - and must be vacated at any cost - if any of them insisted on the need for a state commitment to protect job security, he will be sanctioned with the anti-terrorism law?
Miners Atacama, as well as the national prize for literature, are part of quell'attualità hiding, hides and refuses to have more dirt, and that this is the long of the Mapuche. Thirty-two men of the south are likely to die because they ask for the freedom of political prisoners in a democracy driven by market interests. Seeking legal recognition of the rule of law, demanding that they cease to be applied the hateful anti-terrorism law which removed the presumption of innocence, and includes allegations by witnesses hooded, closed trial, pseudo legal nightmares that condemn them to take radical positions, but this is what he wants the Chilean State to justify the extermination, final solution of the problem of the Mapuche.
In Chile, this strange country that faces the sea and at the mercy of her mistress - the present invention - can breathe a load of this filth and disgrace. Now the news will cover the glories of the bicentennial, the taverns are sbaverà cilenitudine, even the shit stink of patriotism, like it or not, the barbarian lemma will be the national anthem agglutinative milioni di analfabeti sociali, e nel sud, nel profondo sud, i Mapuche, la Gente della Terra, persevererà la sua giusta lotta, negata, ignorata, occultata, repressa, falsificata dai paladini della cilenitudine, nelle cui vene - così dicono orgogliosi - scorre sangue mapuche.
Quei 32 mapuche che si giocano la vita nelle carceri del sud, sono coloro a cui si riferiva Ercilla quando scrisse sulla terra australe: «La gente che la abita è così superba, gagliarda e bellicosa/che non è stata mai battuta/vinta da alcun re/né mai sottomessa a dominazione straniera».
(Traduzione di Valentina Manacorda)
. Cosa sta accadendo al popolo Mapuche? dal sito WWW.FDCA.IT L'insostenibile situazione che le varie comunità del popolo Mapuche hanno dovuto affrontare è giunta nuovamente ad punto di crisi.
I prigionieri politici Mapuche, stanchi e preoccupati per la violazioni dei loro diritti, per le torture e le persecuzioni, persino contro minori, per gli abusi ed i trattamenti arbitrari a cui sono sottoposti dallo Stato cileno e dalla sua magistratura, hanno preso la grave decisione di mettersi in sciopero della fame a partire dal 12 luglio di quest'anno.
Questi prigionieri sono accusati di tentata occupazione di terreni e di danno alla proprietà delle compagnie del legname, settore strategico nel model of Chilean exports, which have occupied the ancestral lands of the Mapuche people.
Today, the 31 prisoners who are locked in several high security prisons in southern Chile (Concepción, Temuco, Valdivia, and Angol), have once again erect in unison to make the difficult decision to forgo food and water, in order to arrive at a true solution to this political conflict.
circumstances, the undersigned libertarian organizations from around the world, declare their full solidarity and denounce the Chilean State and its judiciary.
1. Chile being the country where members of indigenous communities constituting the majority of the prison population are evident in this country, racism, discrimination, oppression and ideology typical of those policies were managed with colonial occupation, similar to those fascist.
2. Since the State of Chile has a legal structure that allows fair and transparent judicial process, such as the so-called "rule of law" does not apply to the Mapuche people, for which there is equality of conditions in respect of the privileges for the interests strategic economic program of the current neoliberal accumulation in the country, such as timber companies, mining companies, hydroelectric plants, planters, etc..
3. being faced with a systematic policy of annihilation of the Mapuche people, not only promoted by the state and judiciary, but also by political and economic right, which is implemented through:
a) The anti-terrorism laws, made during the years of the authoritarian regime of dictator Augusto Pinochet and murderess. This legislation strikes the crimes against life, but no Mapuche was never charged with murder. Still, some prisoners were recently sentenced to 50 and even up to 100 years in prison.
b) Due to the application of double jeopardy, in other words, the Mapuche are tried and convicted two times for the same charge, once by the judiciary and other civil and military, something that only happens in this country and among the most conservative in the world.
c) Given the militarization of the territory on which the Mapuche claim their political rights and land. That is to say a series of measures to use civilian and military means, such as helicopters and tear, abuse of women and children left without the protection of adult men, most in prison.
d) Noting that the Chilean media, which have ensured the invisibility of ignoring protest hunger strike and those who, on the other hand, have consistently criminalized social protest in the history of the Mapuche people and their just and legitimate struggle to obtain a rapid and widespread condemnation in public opinion.
e) Views the false testimony of eyewitnesses and those with their faces covered, both the charge and paid by individuals, to reach the case of the State Prosecutor Francisco Ljubetic linking the organizations of the Mapuche people to the FARC in Colombia, thus creating a false and disproportionate parallel internal conflicts between the two countries.
f) Given the investigative secrecy imposed throughout the legal process in order to prevent the rights of defense.
g) Given that most of the prisoners has been held for the duration of the process (over a year), this case does not respect the presumption of innocence, which supposedly guaranteed in the current Chilean legal system.
h) View the persecution and imprisonment as a result of the media campaign stirred up by the Public Ministry.
i) Finally, given that the Chilean government continues to ignore the requests of prisoners on hunger strike, hoping to bend the Mapuche movement and playing dangerously with the health of prisoners.
We therefore ask ourselves:
JUSTICE AND FREEDOM 'FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS AND THOSE OF OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS THAT SUPPORT THE FIGHT
THE END OF THE LAW OF JUSTICE AND ANTI-MILITARY Teror
demilitarization
AREA LAND AND AUTONOMY FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
organizations:
Convergencia Juvenil Clasista "Hijos del Pueblo" (Ecuador)
Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici (Italia)
Revista Hombre y Sociedad (Cile)
Organización Revolucionaria Anarquista - Voz Negra (Cile)
Estrategia Libertaria (Cile)
Red Libertaria Popular Mateo Kramer (Colombia)
Grupo Antorcha Libertaria (Colombia)
Workers Solidarity Movement (Irlanda)
Unión Socialista Libertaria (Perù)
Traduzione a cura di FdCA-Ufficio Relazioni Internazionali
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