They arrested Héctor Llaitul, a radical leader Mapuche, in the south of Chile

The radical Mapuche leader Héctor Llaitul He was arrested this Wednesday in the city of CañeteIn the south of Chile, for an alleged crime of theft of timber and for violation of the state safety law, they reported local media.

The arrest of the leader of the Arauco-Malleco coordinator (Cam), an indigenous group which periodically claims malicious attacks against landowners In the south of the country, it takes place in the middle of an escalation of violence in the so -called “Mapuche conflict”, which for decades compares this indigenous group with the state and large forest companies.

During the last year Héctor Llaitul had asked for armed resistance against the state of Chile. The flagrant threat led the opposition to ask the president Gabriel Boric to present these threats to the courts, in addition to the complaints that the Sebastián administration Piñera had already presented for other similar crimes.

First of all, the Boric government discarded the measure, but after a bitter public debate, it has finally added the conditions for the actions that the previous government had already started. So, and with new information, The accusation carried out the procedure that ended with the arrest warrant made this Wednesday.

The cam is an organization organized by a sector of the Chilean population as a terrorist “, which dominates the sectors of the Araucanía region and has sovereign ambitions. Among its allied organizations is the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) accused of crimes and similar attacks in Argentina.

The connection between the two organizations became evident with the arrest of Facundo Jones Huala, in 2016, which was extradited to Chile for crimes committed together with the Cam in Transandine territory. The member of the RAM community spent three years in prison, but ran away after being released in freedom. Despite the fact that the Chilean state canceled the benefit, Jones Huala did not appear again to finish serving the sentence.

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