Resistance in Wallmapu has been underway for more than 500 years. Nowadays, the advance of the Chilean colonial State has been further accentuated by its military presence in the territory, with the mobilisation of all its repressive apparatus, after the announcement of the constitutional state of exception decreed on October 12 and extended until November 11.
The conflict, whose historical course has known different moments of calm, is intensifying and flaring up once again today, and is causing the battle flags to rise against the idea of the unceasing progress of extractivist capitalism, based on the usurpation of territory, which steals and devastates lands, forests, rivers, lakes, forest animals and bodies for its own profit, to the detriment of the immense multiplicity of life forms.
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