“Those who commit crimes will be prosecuted with the full force of the law.” In this way, the President of the Republic, Gabriel Boric, responded to the CAM spokesman, Héctor Llaitul, who affirmed that they will deepen their position of “a total war once morest the capitalist State.”
The President of the Republic, Gabriel Boric, responded to the spokesman for the Arauco Malleco Coordinator, Héctor Llaitul, who -in an interview- claimed the use of “sabotage” as a political action and that the CAM is going to deepen its position of “a total war once morest the capitalist state”.
In this regard, the head of state indicated that “if someone recognizes links to illegal activities, of course that has to be investigated and if the investigation is concluded, sanctioned accordingly”.
“The important thing here is that from the State of Chile, beyond this Government, we have a very serious problem and to solve it, we are not going to achieve it if we fall for the provocations of those who do not want dialogueof those who do not want this to be solved, “added the country’s highest authority.
To this, he added that “there are those who want to maintain and perpetuate the conflict. Those who commit crimes will be prosecuted with the full force of the law.”
“The vast majority of the communities of the Mapuche people are peaceful, they are hard-working, they do not want violence and, therefore, those who insist on fear, threats and violence as a method of political action are doing a disservice. This government does not legitimize violence as a political action”sentenced the president.
Statements by Hector Llaitul
In an interview with Werkén Noticias, Héctor Llaitul stated that “the definitions we have taken is also to deepen our position (…) Which is practically a total war once morest the capitalist stateas a colonial state that denies all our fundamental rights”.
Llaitul issued his statements in what he defined as the one-year commemoration of the death of Pablo Marchant, a young man who died during a confrontation in the commune of CarahueAraucania region.
In addition, it stated that the deceased was part of an ORT (Territorial Resistance Organization), arguing that “In this context, these resistance actions operate, the sabotage carried out by these ORTs”.
“This was mandated by the organization and in convergence with the communities in the area, therefore, the ORTs work according to these approaches. There is an ethic of political action in which sabotage has nothing to do with the extermination, not even of the enemy although he confronted and that also passed the bill in Marchant’s fall, ”he explained.
Llaitul did not stop there, indicating that “The CAM, in its almost 25 years, has never killed anyone, not even the forces that are belligerent once morest the weichafes”.
Regarding the figure of Marchant, the CAM spokesman defined him as someone “very close to the nucleus of the CAM, so he was a central figure in our struggle.”
“Our way of avenging him, so to speak, is to sharpen contradictions and to fight more strongly once morest those who we consider responsible, which are the foresters and the occupation forces that are today in Wallmapu, who are agents of the State that carry out the militarization”.
