Under the cover of the intelligence law, in September 2017 that police force carried out an operation that led to the arrest of eight suspects allegedly involved in an illicit terrorist association in the southern center of the country.

However, a few months later the Public Prosecutor’s Office discovered that police officers forged evidence, illegally intercepted telephones and fraudulently implanted dozens of chats to set the leaders of native peoples up in the most serious local attacks.

Sociologist David Cid, one of those arrested on that occasion denounces in the book this crude operation to incriminate Mapuche leaders and community members.

Published by Alquimia Ediciones, the book will be presented on June 29 at the headquarters of the Pretox Union in Concepcion City.

The Mapuche are the most numerous native people in Chile. They have been demanding for decades the return of ancestral lands occupied by the State at the end of the 19th century due to these territories are now in the hands of forestry and agricultural companies.

Lately, there have been episodes of violence in the area that have cost the lives of community members at the hands of State agents, as well as non-indigenous people and law enforcement officers.

This week, the Chilean Government intends to put into operation the Presidential Commission for Peace and Understanding, which seeks to advance towards a solution to the historic conflict.

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