El nuevo ciclo de movilización mapuche en Chile: la emergencia de la CAM y el proyecto autonomista para una región plurinacional

Abstract

The article explains in historic context the new cycle of Mapuche mobilizations that have been intensified in the last decade. This Mapuche movement is the principal movement in Chile for territorial autonomous power that resists a homogenizing presidential political system that is both centralized and nationalist. The article explains the dispossession of Mapuche territory by the Chilean state and the logic of minoritization that has been maintained in the new democracy with sectorial politics but no autonomy or political power. Next it will consider the complexity of the Mapuche movement and demands for the return of dispossessed lands beginning in the year 1997, explaining the complexity of the violence in the territory of the Araucania and the struggle against the forestry companies. The principal proposal for a political solution to the conflict is to accept the idea of a plurinational autonomous region, with a parliament with indigenous quotas, a process of devolution of resources, indigenous law and recovery of the mapuzungu language.