Hi, my task today is talk about the "Mapuche Issue", this because nowadays the hunger strike of mapuche "people" have push the discussion into de open (put the discussion even into the news).

First of all, i have to say that i wrote a huge text about this, but internet fail me, so i'll try to write againg the same text (i'll try, this text may be a little different from the original).

Well, to be honest, actually the mapuche issue isn'tvery important for me, i think that goverment and mapuche people are wrong, both of them are facing the problem in a very wrong way, in one hand the goverment is closed to any discussion about any demand from mapuche people, because of a rancid republicanism that says that the integrity of the territory is above the welfare of the people (i would say Nation, but that concept is so more old-fashioned than the old republicanism that i'm talking about) and an evident racism with deep foundations in the denial of our crossbreeding (we -chileans- can't accept our past, the very same root of our "racial" identity. And in the other hand, we have mapuche people, they are just out of focus, they wasn't look into de reality of the unfair stuffs, they always deny the option of face the problem in the "occidental way", why i said this? Because i'm a democrat and i think that the process of empowering must be inside the system, not from the outside, and them with their actions gave to the goverment the reasons to call them "outsiders", "terrorists", etc; when you alter your speech radically into the "republican and democratic logics" you can't be ignored, maybe they -the goverment- can try to silence you, but they never could call you "terrorist" and so, they could never delegitimize your demands, because you're attached to the regular instances.

Now, i may sound like a conservative, but i truly believe in democracy and its power to make changes, only when people get empowered by the respect for the other and the support of people. I said this because i don't accept in any case the violence that is used against mapuche people, i believe that is absolutely barbarian the treatment that they -mapuche people- are getting from the state; but here there's something important, i said "state" because i think that this issue isn't a matter of blocs (left, right, etc), both sides have used violence against mapuche people, and the efforts to diminish this situation, are actually... very poor. This is a cultural stuff, not just a political and legal problem like goverment wants to show us; goverment doesn't want to accept our past and mapuche keep doing things that gave reasons to goverment to use violence against them (they use the argument that they can't let unpunished the crime, but then they use the excessive violence, when no one is looking at them and their behavior).

Now, to finish this... I hope that the strike end with good results for mapuche people, but deeply i hope a change of attitude from their side, i hope that they ligitimize their demands and the state couldn't make the deaf, argue that they are terrorist.

Regards