WNU #1083: Mapuche Prisoners End Fast in Chile

Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #1083, June 12, 2011

1. Chile: Mapuche Prisoners End Fast, Form Commission
2. Honduras: Three Campesinos Killed, More Trouble for Landowner?
3. Mexico: US Admits It's the Source for Drug Gang Arms
4. Haiti: Cables Show US Role in 2009 Wage Struggle
5. Haiti: The Displaced Demonstrate for Housing, Again
6. Links to alternative sources on: Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico, Haiti, Puerto Rico

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*1. Chile: Mapuche Prisoners End Fast, Form Commission
On June 9 four Mapuche activists imprisoned in Chile’s central Araucanía region decided to end a liquids-only hunger strike they started on Mar. 15 to protest their convictions in what they considered an unfair trial [see Update #1081]. The prisoners--José Huenuche Reimán, Jonathan Huillical Méndez, Héctor Llaitul Carillanca and Ramón Llanquileo Pilquimán—stopped the fast after relatives, human rights organizations and members of the Catholic church made an agreement to form a Commission for the Defense of the Rights of the Mapuche People to promote and defend indigenous rights. [...]

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