I
chose the news is about the construction of an international airport in Mapuche
territory, is to say, the airport will be installed in
the Aracaunía region of our country. The news revolves
around two problems. The first
and most obvious is that the airport will effectively ancestral occupy
lands of the Mapuche indigenous.The new
airport will be built in this agricultural and forested area, at a cost of more
than 120 million dollars. But be who also says it will bring to
tourism“Tourism in this area is growing by 30
percent a year, which offers interesting prospects,” Molina said.Although a few
Mapuche communities support the new airport, which they see as a step forward
for the region in terms of economic and cultural development, many others are
staunchly opposed, arguing that it will undermine biodiversity and the
environment, and will destroy their ancestral territory.
The other problem is that the
realization of this airport and is approved,
however, it is known that this approval
is based on a lie.The construction project was ´approved thanks to an
environmental impact study “based on lies” ´. This lie according to Reyes was conducted by Arcadis
Geotécnica, the Chilean subsidiary of a Netherlands-based international
consulting and engineering company.
this was said by Ivan Reyes, who is knowledgeable in the subject and is opposition who heads the construction of this airport.
this was said by Ivan Reyes, who is knowledgeable in the subject and is opposition who heads the construction of this airport.
the problem to fight is that the mapuche people know that if the chilean goverment want to processing to them with the anti terrorist law, it can do it!. Tranamil other mapuche activist say: there is fear.
The true and what is catastrophic to the airport anyway is being carried out via hurting the life style, traditions and culture a lot of mapuche people !
http://www.unpo.org/article/15202