WNU #1081: Two Chilean Hunger Strikers Are Hospitalized

Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #1081, May 29, 2011

1. Chile: Two Mapuche Hunger Strikers Are Hospitalized
2. Honduras: Zelaya Returns, Resistance Responses Vary
3. Mexico: Indigenous Group Protests Mining Concessions
4. Haiti: Cops Evict More Earthquake Survivors
5. Haiti: US Extends TPS, Deportations Continue
6. Links to alternative sources on: Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Haiti, Puerto Rico

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*1. Chile: Two Mapuche Hunger Strikers Are Hospitalized
Two Chilean Mapuche prisoners, Ramón Llanquileo Pilquimán and José Huenuche Reimán, were admitted to a hospital in Victoria, Malleco province, Araucanía region, on May 26 after 72 days of a liquids-only hunger strike. Corrections authorities denied that the prisoners’ lives were in danger; Araucanía health secretary Gloria Rodríguez said “the Mapuches are being monitored permanently,” without offering an opinion on their condition.

Two other Mapuche prisoners, Héctor Llaitul Carillanca, Jonathan Huillical Méndez, are also on hunger strike; the four strikers have each lost about 20 kilograms (44 pounds). They are “very weak” and their relatives are concerned about their health, according to Millaray Garrido, Huenuche’s wife. [...]

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