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"value": "The renewed hunger strike of fifteen political prisoners of the Mapuche resistance movement in Chile has reached a highly critical stage. The prisoners are members of the Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM), a movement that is involved in direct action to recover ancestral lands in order to protect Madre Tierra from spoliation by logging companies and big business\u00a0latifundios.\n\nThe\u00a0weichafe\u00a0ecowarriors also identify by their Spanish acronym PPM (Presos Pol\u00edticos Mapuche). They have been in a protracted struggle for political autonomy and protection of their\u00a0wallmapu\u00a0homeland from destructive commercial exploitation. But the Chilean state, under the supposedly leftist government of Gabriel Boric, insists on criminalizing the CAM and stigmatizing any action for national liberation as\u00a0terrorist.1\n\nFour\u00a0weichafe\u00a0commenced a hunger strike on November 13, 2023, and have since been joined by two other groups of PPM. Their two central demands are:\n Share this article on Twitter Facebook Mail The annulment of the political and unjust convictions without evidence against CAM political prisoners and the right of due process. Their conviction of at least fifteen years imprisonment was not based on evidence but on racist profiling. Better conditions of detention, respecting their collective rights as Indigenous people, including the implementation of communal modules in prisons. The Chilean state should respect ILO Convention 169 regarding the cultural relevance of the deprivation of liberty of Indigenous peoples.\nDoctors advise that once a hunger striker goes beyond sixty days without food, their internal organs begin to collapse and they are in imminent danger of dying.\u00a0 As at time of writing, January 29, 2024, the first group of strikers are seventy-nine days into their protest.\n\nThe families of the political prisoners, especially women, have led the resistance outside the prisons, called for demonstrations and a week of protest. \u00a0They write:\n\n\u201cWe confidently await the ruling on the appeal for annulment on February 9 this year and we will be attentive to the political and racist maneuvers of the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office and the government of Gabriel Boric.\u201d\nInternational Solidarity Is Urgent\nThe\u00a0weichafe\u00a0are one the foremost contingents of the invisible daily resistance of Indigenous peoples to capitalist extractivism.\u00a0 Their lives are on the line to resist criminalization and make visible the Mapuche nation\u2019s struggle.\u00a0 Please support them by writing urgently, calling on the government to respect the prisoners\u2019 rights as Mapuche people, to:\n\nJaime Gajardo, Subsecretario de Justicia.\nE-mail: jaime.gajardo@minjusticia.cl\nMobile number: +569 4275 9326\nTimeline\nOctober 4, 2023:\u00a0Los \u00c1ngeles court, Bio-b\u00edo penitentiary. The trial of Ernesto Llaitul, Esteban Henr\u00edquez, Nicolas V. Alcaman, and Ricardo D. Reinao begins in a hybrid format. Many family members and observers cannot enter.\n\n\n\nIf you like this article, please sign up for Snapshot, Portside's daily summary.\nEmail\n(One summary e-mail a day, you can change anytime, and Portside is always free.)\n Leave this field blank\nOctober 16, 2023:\u00a0Pretrial hearing for Bastian Llaitul, Jos\u00e9 Lienqueo, Axel Campos, Oscar Ca\u00f1upan, and Roberto Garling.\n\nNovember 3, 2023:\u00a0The five-week trial at the Los \u00c1ngeles court ends. There is no jury. The three judges find Ernesto Llaitul, Esteban Henr\u00edquez, Nicolas V. Alcaman, and Ricardo D. Reinao guilty.\n\nNovember 13, 2023:\u00a0These four PPM commence hunger strike in Bio-b\u00edo penitentiary.\n\nNovember 16, 2023:\u00a0The Los \u00c1ngeles court passes sentences of fifteen years at least.\n\nDecember 11, 2023:\u00a0Six PPM held at Bio-b\u00edo join the hunger strike: Hector Llaitul, Pelentaro Llaitul, Jos\u00e9 Lienqueo, Axel Campos, Oscar Ca\u00f1upan, and Roberto Garling. Graffiti, murals, and civil resistance roadblocks appear across\u00a0wallmapu.\n\nDecember 13, 2023:\u00a0Five more prisoners held separately in Temuco prison join the strike: Bastian Llaitul, Axel Campos, Roberto Garling, Jos\u00e9 Lienqueo, Oscar Ca\u00f1upan. They further demand forest companies and military out of\u00a0wallmapu,\u00a0and an end to state persecution of the Mapuche resistance to land grabbing.\n\nThe court in Lautaro hears a motion to improve conditions of four PPM in pretrial detention: Pelentaro Llaitul, Luis Menares, J.C. Mardones, and Jorge Caniupil. The court refuses to lift the punitive measures.\n\nDecember 19, 2023: The forestry company Minimco attempts entry into the Santa Ana farm in Coi-Coi, which has been retaken by the Indigenous community with CAM\u2019s support. They are repelled.\n\nDecember 26, 2023: Government spokesperson Senator Camila Vallejo rejects a proposal by the Human Rights Institute to set up talks with the CAM.2\n\nJanuary 3, 2024:\u00a0A protest by the Families of the Political Prisoners on the highway is brutally attacked by armored police with water cannons.\n\nJanuary 11, 2024:\u00a0The Concepci\u00f3n Court of Appeal denies the appeal for annulment of the convictions of Nicol\u00e1s Alcam\u00e1n, Ernesto Llaitul, Esteban Henr\u00edquez, and Ricardo Reinao. They refer the case back to the Los \u00c1ngeles court.\n\nJanuary 13, 2024:\u00a0The Los \u00c1ngeles court states that it is not possible to hear the appeal as the relevant judges are on holiday.\n\nMinister Monsalvo assures that the government has transferred extra funds 32 million dollars to both police forces (gendarmer\u00eda\u00a0and\u00a0caribineros).\n\nThe National Institute of Human Rights arranges for a team from the Medical Association to assess. They report that Esteban \u201crequires urgent and comprehensive medical attention.\u201d He is in urgent need of hospitalization. \u201cIf he does not receive this assistance, there is a high probability that he will suffer a serious decompensation, deterioration of multiple organs and multi-organ failure, which could lead to his death.\u201d\n\nEsteban is transferred to Concepci\u00f3n regional hospital due to his acute state of health.\n\nJanuary 16, 2024:\u00a0The gendarmerie return Esteban to Bio-b\u00edo prison, ignoring the doctors\u2019 concerns.\n\nFamilies of the PPM take direct action in the Presidential Office in Bio-b\u00edo. Their banners read \u201c65 days on Hunger Strike\u201d and \u201cDefense of the Land Is not Terrorism or a Crime. Free the CAM Political Prisoners!\u201d\n\nJanuary 17, 2024: Two doctors were allowed in Temuco prison to evaluate the condition of the PPM there. They report that the five prisoners have each lost nine to fourteen kilograms since their hunger strike commenced thirty-seven days previously. They reported headaches, fatigue, dizziness, and abdominal pains.\n\nFederico Aguirre Madrid, of the Araucan\u00eda Institute of Human Rights, calls on the government to respect the prisoners\u2019 rights as Mapuche people.3\n\nJanuary 22, 2024:\u00a0Application to the Appeal Court in Concepci\u00f3n to hear the appeal against conviction of Esteban, Nicol\u00e1s, Ernesto, and Ricardo. The week of protests starts.\n\nFebruary 9, 2024:\u00a0Date of appeal hearing.\nNotes\n1.\u00a0For a report on previous hunger strike, see Andy Higginbottom, \u201cMapuche Political Prisoners Hunger Strike Reaches Critical Stage,\u201d MR Online, January 11, 2023.\n\n2.\u00a0\u201cAnte propuesta del INDH, Vallejo dice que la CAM no ha mostrado \u2018ninguna disposici\u00f3n al di\u00e1logo,\u2019\u201d Cooperativa.cl, December 26, 2023.\n\n3.\u00a0Radio Kvrruf,\u00a0Facebook video, January 17, 2024.\n\nAndy Higginbottom is a retired Associate Professor at Kingston University, London.\u00a0 See his related articles \u201cGlobal Britain\u2019s Real Climate Changers: Big Oil Must Be Taken Down\u201d and \u00a0\u201cOil price collapse & the crisis.\u201d\n\nThroughout its\u00a0history,\u00a0Monthly Review,\u00a0an independent socialist magazine, has relied on the support of our readers. We have no deep pockets, no roster of big donors, no foundation support. 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They have been in a protracted struggle for political autonomy and protection of their\u00a0<em>wallmapu\u00a0</em>homeland from destructive commercial exploitation. But the Chilean state, under the supposedly leftist government of Gabriel Boric, insists on criminalizing the CAM and stigmatizing any action for national liberation as\u00a0<em>terrorist</em>.<a href=\"https://mronline.org/2024/02/06/mapuche-hunger-strike-reaches-crisis-point-political-prisoners-fight-for-madre-tierra/#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">¹</a></p>\n<p>Four\u00a0<em>weichafe</em>\u00a0commenced a hunger strike on November 13, 2023, and have since been joined by two other groups of PPM. Their two central demands are:</p>\n<div class=\"links inline social-buttons-links tokens\" id=\"block-socialsimpleblock\">\n<div class=\"social-buttons\">\n<div class=\"social-buttons-title\">Share this article on</div>\n<ul class=\"links\">\n<li class=\"twitter\"><a data-placement=\"top\" data-popup-height=\"300\" data-popup-width=\"600\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" href=\"https://twitter.com/intent/tweet/?url=https%3A//portside.org/2024-02-18/mapuche-hunger-strike-reaches-crisis-point-political-prisoners-fight-madre-tierra&amp;text=Mapuche%20Hunger%20Strike%20Reaches%20Crisis%20Point%3A%20Political%20Prisoners%20Fight%20for%20Madre%20Tierra\" title=\"Twitter\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"></i><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Twitter</span></a></li>\n<li class=\"facebook\"><a data-placement=\"top\" data-popup-height=\"300\" data-popup-width=\"600\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//portside.org/2024-02-18/mapuche-hunger-strike-reaches-crisis-point-political-prisoners-fight-madre-tierra\" title=\"Facebook\"><i class=\"fa fa-facebook\"></i><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Facebook</span></a></li>\n<li class=\"mail\"><a data-popup-open=\"false\" href=\"mailto:?body=%0AMapuche%20Hunger%20Strike%20Reaches%20Crisis%20Point%3A%20Political%20Prisoners%20Fight%20for%20Madre%20Tierra%0Ahttps%3A//portside.org/2024-02-18/mapuche-hunger-strike-reaches-crisis-point-political-prisoners-fight-madre-tierra&amp;subject=Mapuche%20Hunger%20Strike%20Reaches%20Crisis%20Point%3A%20Political%20Prisoners%20Fight%20for%20Madre%20Tierra\" title=\"Mail\"><i class=\"fa fa-envelope\"></i><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Mail</span></a></li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n</div>\n<ol>\n<li>The annulment of the political and unjust convictions without evidence against CAM political prisoners and the right of due process. Their conviction of at least fifteen years imprisonment was not based on evidence but on racist profiling.</li>\n<li>Better conditions of detention, respecting their collective rights as Indigenous people, including the implementation of communal modules in prisons. The Chilean state should respect ILO Convention 169 regarding the cultural relevance of the deprivation of liberty of Indigenous peoples.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Doctors advise that once a hunger striker goes beyond sixty days without food, their internal organs begin to collapse and they are in imminent danger of dying.\u00a0 As at time of writing, January 29, 2024, the first group of strikers are seventy-nine days into their protest.</p>\n<p>The families of the political prisoners, especially women, have led the resistance outside the prisons, called for demonstrations and a week of protest. \u00a0They write:</p>\n<p>\u201cWe confidently await the ruling on the appeal for annulment on February 9 this year and we will be attentive to the political and racist maneuvers of the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office and the government of Gabriel Boric.\u201d</p>\n<h3>International Solidarity Is Urgent</h3>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>weichafe\u00a0</em>are one the foremost contingents of the invisible daily resistance of Indigenous peoples to capitalist extractivism.\u00a0 Their lives are on the line to resist criminalization and make visible the Mapuche nation\u2019s struggle.\u00a0 Please support them by writing urgently, calling on the government to respect the prisoners\u2019 rights as Mapuche people, to:</p>\n<p><strong>Jaime Gajardo, Subsecretario de Justicia.</strong><br/>\n<strong>E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:jaime.gajardo@minjusticia.cl\">jaime.gajardo@minjusticia.cl</a></strong><br/>\n<strong>Mobile number: +569 4275 9326</strong></p>\n<h3>Timeline</h3>\n<p><em>October 4, 2023:</em>\u00a0Los \u00c1ngeles court, Bio-b\u00edo penitentiary. The trial of Ernesto Llaitul, Esteban Henr\u00edquez, Nicolas V. Alcaman, and Ricardo D. Reinao begins in a hybrid format. 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There is no jury. The three judges find Ernesto Llaitul, Esteban Henr\u00edquez, Nicolas V. Alcaman, and Ricardo D. Reinao guilty.</p>\n<p><em>November 13, 2023:</em>\u00a0These four PPM commence hunger strike in Bio-b\u00edo penitentiary.</p>\n<p><em>November 16, 2023:</em>\u00a0The Los \u00c1ngeles court passes sentences of fifteen years at least.</p>\n<p><em>December 11, 2023:</em>\u00a0Six PPM held at Bio-b\u00edo join the hunger strike: Hector Llaitul, Pelentaro Llaitul, Jos\u00e9 Lienqueo, Axel Campos, Oscar Ca\u00f1upan, and Roberto Garling. Graffiti, murals, and civil resistance roadblocks appear across\u00a0<em>wallmapu</em>.</p>\n<p><em>December 13, 2023:</em>\u00a0Five more prisoners held separately in Temuco prison join the strike: Bastian Llaitul, Axel Campos, Roberto Garling, Jos\u00e9 Lienqueo, Oscar Ca\u00f1upan. They further demand forest companies and military out of\u00a0<em>wallmapu,\u00a0</em>and an end to state persecution of the Mapuche resistance to land grabbing.</p>\n<p>The court in Lautaro hears a motion to improve conditions of four PPM in pretrial detention: Pelentaro Llaitul, Luis Menares, J.C. Mardones, and Jorge Caniupil. The court refuses to lift the punitive measures.</p>\n<p><em>December 19, 2023</em>: The forestry company Minimco attempts entry into the Santa Ana farm in Coi-Coi, which has been retaken by the Indigenous community with CAM\u2019s support. They are repelled.</p>\n<p><em>December 26, 2023</em>: Government spokesperson Senator Camila Vallejo rejects a proposal by the Human Rights Institute to set up talks with the CAM.<a href=\"https://mronline.org/2024/02/06/mapuche-hunger-strike-reaches-crisis-point-political-prisoners-fight-for-madre-tierra/#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">²</a></p>\n<p><em>January 3, 2024:</em>\u00a0A protest by the Families of the Political Prisoners on the highway is brutally attacked by armored police with water cannons.</p>\n<p><em>January 11, 2024:\u00a0</em>The Concepci\u00f3n Court of Appeal denies the appeal for annulment of the convictions of Nicol\u00e1s Alcam\u00e1n, Ernesto Llaitul, Esteban Henr\u00edquez, and Ricardo Reinao. They refer the case back to the Los \u00c1ngeles court.</p>\n<p><em>January 13, 2024:</em>\u00a0The Los \u00c1ngeles court states that it is not possible to hear the appeal as the relevant judges are on holiday.</p>\n<p>Minister Monsalvo assures that the government has transferred extra funds 32 million dollars to both police forces (<em>gendarmer\u00eda\u00a0</em>and\u00a0<em>caribineros</em>).</p>\n<p>The National Institute of Human Rights arranges for a team from the Medical Association to assess. They report that Esteban \u201crequires urgent and comprehensive medical attention.\u201d He is in urgent need of hospitalization. \u201cIf he does not receive this assistance, there is a high probability that he will suffer a serious decompensation, deterioration of multiple organs and multi-organ failure, which could lead to his death.\u201d</p>\n<p>Esteban is transferred to Concepci\u00f3n regional hospital due to his acute state of health.</p>\n<p><em>January 16, 2024:\u00a0</em>The gendarmerie return Esteban to Bio-b\u00edo prison, ignoring the doctors\u2019 concerns.</p>\n<p>Families of the PPM take direct action in the Presidential Office in Bio-b\u00edo. Their banners read \u201c65 days on Hunger Strike\u201d and \u201cDefense of the Land Is not Terrorism or a Crime. Free the CAM Political Prisoners!\u201d</p>\n<p><em>January 17, 2024</em>: Two doctors were allowed in Temuco prison to evaluate the condition of the PPM there. They report that the five prisoners have each lost nine to fourteen kilograms since their hunger strike commenced thirty-seven days previously. They reported headaches, fatigue, dizziness, and abdominal pains.</p>\n<p>Federico Aguirre Madrid, of the Araucan\u00eda Institute of Human Rights, calls on the government to respect the prisoners\u2019 rights as Mapuche people.<a href=\"https://mronline.org/2024/02/06/mapuche-hunger-strike-reaches-crisis-point-political-prisoners-fight-for-madre-tierra/#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\">³</a></p>\n<p><em>January 22, 2024:</em>\u00a0Application to the Appeal Court in Concepci\u00f3n to hear the appeal against conviction of Esteban, Nicol\u00e1s, Ernesto, and Ricardo. The week of protests starts.</p>\n<p><em>February 9, 2024:</em>\u00a0Date of appeal hearing.</p>\n<h3>Notes</h3>\n<p><a href=\"https://mronline.org/2024/02/06/mapuche-hunger-strike-reaches-crisis-point-political-prisoners-fight-for-madre-tierra/#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">1.</a>\u00a0For a report on previous hunger strike, see Andy Higginbottom, \u201c<a href=\"https://mronline.org/2023/01/11/mapuche-political-prisoners-hunger-strike-reaches-critical-stage/\">Mapuche Political Prisoners Hunger Strike Reaches Critical Stage</a>,\u201d MR Online, January 11, 2023.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://mronline.org/2024/02/06/mapuche-hunger-strike-reaches-crisis-point-political-prisoners-fight-for-madre-tierra/#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">2.</a>\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https://www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/pais/regiones/zona-sur/ante-propuesta-del-indh-vallejo-dice-que-la-cam-no-ha-mostrado-ninguna/2023-12-26/164021.html\">Ante propuesta del INDH, Vallejo dice que la CAM no ha mostrado \u2018ninguna disposici\u00f3n al di\u00e1logo</a>,\u2019\u201d Cooperativa.cl, December 26, 2023.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://mronline.org/2024/02/06/mapuche-hunger-strike-reaches-crisis-point-political-prisoners-fight-for-madre-tierra/#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\">3.</a>\u00a0Radio Kvrruf,\u00a0<a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/radiokurruf/videos/1139959930351923/\">Facebook video</a>, January 17, 2024.</p>\n<hr/>\n<p><em class=\"author-id\"><strong>Andy Higginbottom</strong> is a retired Associate Professor at Kingston University, London.\u00a0 See his related articles \u201c<a href=\"https://mronline.org/2019/07/17/global-britains-real-climate-changers-big-oil-must-be-taken-down/\">Global Britain\u2019s Real Climate Changers: Big Oil Must Be Taken Down</a>\u201d and \u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https://mronline.org/2020/05/26/oil-price-collapse-the-crisis/\">Oil price collapse &amp; the crisis</a>.\u201d</em></p>\n<p><em class=\"author-id\">Throughout its\u00a0history,\u00a0<strong>Monthly Review,</strong>\u00a0an independent socialist magazine, has relied on the support of our readers. 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They have been in a protracted struggle for political autonomy and protection of their\u00a0<em>wallmapu\u00a0</em>homeland from destructive commercial exploitation. But the Chilean state, under the supposedly leftist government of Gabriel Boric, insists on criminalizing the CAM and stigmatizing any action for national liberation as\u00a0<em>terrorist</em>.<a href=\"https://mronline.org/2024/02/06/mapuche-hunger-strike-reaches-crisis-point-political-prisoners-fight-for-madre-tierra/#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">¹</a></p>\n<p>Four\u00a0<em>weichafe</em>\u00a0commenced a hunger strike on November 13, 2023, and have since been joined by two other groups of PPM. 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Their conviction of at least fifteen years imprisonment was not based on evidence but on racist profiling.</li>\n<li>Better conditions of detention, respecting their collective rights as Indigenous people, including the implementation of communal modules in prisons. The Chilean state should respect ILO Convention 169 regarding the cultural relevance of the deprivation of liberty of Indigenous peoples.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Doctors advise that once a hunger striker goes beyond sixty days without food, their internal organs begin to collapse and they are in imminent danger of dying.\u00a0 As at time of writing, January 29, 2024, the first group of strikers are seventy-nine days into their protest.</p>\n<p>The families of the political prisoners, especially women, have led the resistance outside the prisons, called for demonstrations and a week of protest. \u00a0They write:</p>\n<p>\u201cWe confidently await the ruling on the appeal for annulment on February 9 this year and we will be attentive to the political and racist maneuvers of the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office and the government of Gabriel Boric.\u201d</p>\n<h3>International Solidarity Is Urgent</h3>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>weichafe\u00a0</em>are one the foremost contingents of the invisible daily resistance of Indigenous peoples to capitalist extractivism.\u00a0 Their lives are on the line to resist criminalization and make visible the Mapuche nation\u2019s struggle.\u00a0 Please support them by writing urgently, calling on the government to respect the prisoners\u2019 rights as Mapuche people, to:</p>\n<p><strong>Jaime Gajardo, Subsecretario de Justicia.</strong><br/>\n<strong>E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:jaime.gajardo@minjusticia.cl\">jaime.gajardo@minjusticia.cl</a></strong><br/>\n<strong>Mobile number: +569 4275 9326</strong></p>\n<h3>Timeline</h3>\n<p><em>October 4, 2023:</em>\u00a0Los \u00c1ngeles court, Bio-b\u00edo penitentiary. The trial of Ernesto Llaitul, Esteban Henr\u00edquez, Nicolas V. Alcaman, and Ricardo D. Reinao begins in a hybrid format. 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There is no jury. The three judges find Ernesto Llaitul, Esteban Henr\u00edquez, Nicolas V. Alcaman, and Ricardo D. Reinao guilty.</p>\n<p><em>November 13, 2023:</em>\u00a0These four PPM commence hunger strike in Bio-b\u00edo penitentiary.</p>\n<p><em>November 16, 2023:</em>\u00a0The Los \u00c1ngeles court passes sentences of fifteen years at least.</p>\n<p><em>December 11, 2023:</em>\u00a0Six PPM held at Bio-b\u00edo join the hunger strike: Hector Llaitul, Pelentaro Llaitul, Jos\u00e9 Lienqueo, Axel Campos, Oscar Ca\u00f1upan, and Roberto Garling. Graffiti, murals, and civil resistance roadblocks appear across\u00a0<em>wallmapu</em>.</p>\n<p><em>December 13, 2023:</em>\u00a0Five more prisoners held separately in Temuco prison join the strike: Bastian Llaitul, Axel Campos, Roberto Garling, Jos\u00e9 Lienqueo, Oscar Ca\u00f1upan. They further demand forest companies and military out of\u00a0<em>wallmapu,\u00a0</em>and an end to state persecution of the Mapuche resistance to land grabbing.</p>\n<p>The court in Lautaro hears a motion to improve conditions of four PPM in pretrial detention: Pelentaro Llaitul, Luis Menares, J.C. Mardones, and Jorge Caniupil. The court refuses to lift the punitive measures.</p>\n<p><em>December 19, 2023</em>: The forestry company Minimco attempts entry into the Santa Ana farm in Coi-Coi, which has been retaken by the Indigenous community with CAM\u2019s support. They are repelled.</p>\n<p><em>December 26, 2023</em>: Government spokesperson Senator Camila Vallejo rejects a proposal by the Human Rights Institute to set up talks with the CAM.<a href=\"https://mronline.org/2024/02/06/mapuche-hunger-strike-reaches-crisis-point-political-prisoners-fight-for-madre-tierra/#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">²</a></p>\n<p><em>January 3, 2024:</em>\u00a0A protest by the Families of the Political Prisoners on the highway is brutally attacked by armored police with water cannons.</p>\n<p><em>January 11, 2024:\u00a0</em>The Concepci\u00f3n Court of Appeal denies the appeal for annulment of the convictions of Nicol\u00e1s Alcam\u00e1n, Ernesto Llaitul, Esteban Henr\u00edquez, and Ricardo Reinao. They refer the case back to the Los \u00c1ngeles court.</p>\n<p><em>January 13, 2024:</em>\u00a0The Los \u00c1ngeles court states that it is not possible to hear the appeal as the relevant judges are on holiday.</p>\n<p>Minister Monsalvo assures that the government has transferred extra funds 32 million dollars to both police forces (<em>gendarmer\u00eda\u00a0</em>and\u00a0<em>caribineros</em>).</p>\n<p>The National Institute of Human Rights arranges for a team from the Medical Association to assess. They report that Esteban \u201crequires urgent and comprehensive medical attention.\u201d He is in urgent need of hospitalization. \u201cIf he does not receive this assistance, there is a high probability that he will suffer a serious decompensation, deterioration of multiple organs and multi-organ failure, which could lead to his death.\u201d</p>\n<p>Esteban is transferred to Concepci\u00f3n regional hospital due to his acute state of health.</p>\n<p><em>January 16, 2024:\u00a0</em>The gendarmerie return Esteban to Bio-b\u00edo prison, ignoring the doctors\u2019 concerns.</p>\n<p>Families of the PPM take direct action in the Presidential Office in Bio-b\u00edo. Their banners read \u201c65 days on Hunger Strike\u201d and \u201cDefense of the Land Is not Terrorism or a Crime. Free the CAM Political Prisoners!\u201d</p>\n<p><em>January 17, 2024</em>: Two doctors were allowed in Temuco prison to evaluate the condition of the PPM there. They report that the five prisoners have each lost nine to fourteen kilograms since their hunger strike commenced thirty-seven days previously. They reported headaches, fatigue, dizziness, and abdominal pains.</p>\n<p>Federico Aguirre Madrid, of the Araucan\u00eda Institute of Human Rights, calls on the government to respect the prisoners\u2019 rights as Mapuche people.<a href=\"https://mronline.org/2024/02/06/mapuche-hunger-strike-reaches-crisis-point-political-prisoners-fight-for-madre-tierra/#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\">³</a></p>\n<p><em>January 22, 2024:</em>\u00a0Application to the Appeal Court in Concepci\u00f3n to hear the appeal against conviction of Esteban, Nicol\u00e1s, Ernesto, and Ricardo. The week of protests starts.</p>\n<p><em>February 9, 2024:</em>\u00a0Date of appeal hearing.</p>\n<h3>Notes</h3>\n<p><a href=\"https://mronline.org/2024/02/06/mapuche-hunger-strike-reaches-crisis-point-political-prisoners-fight-for-madre-tierra/#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">1.</a>\u00a0For a report on previous hunger strike, see Andy Higginbottom, \u201c<a href=\"https://mronline.org/2023/01/11/mapuche-political-prisoners-hunger-strike-reaches-critical-stage/\">Mapuche Political Prisoners Hunger Strike Reaches Critical Stage</a>,\u201d MR Online, January 11, 2023.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://mronline.org/2024/02/06/mapuche-hunger-strike-reaches-crisis-point-political-prisoners-fight-for-madre-tierra/#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">2.</a>\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https://www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/pais/regiones/zona-sur/ante-propuesta-del-indh-vallejo-dice-que-la-cam-no-ha-mostrado-ninguna/2023-12-26/164021.html\">Ante propuesta del INDH, Vallejo dice que la CAM no ha mostrado \u2018ninguna disposici\u00f3n al di\u00e1logo</a>,\u2019\u201d Cooperativa.cl, December 26, 2023.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://mronline.org/2024/02/06/mapuche-hunger-strike-reaches-crisis-point-political-prisoners-fight-for-madre-tierra/#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\">3.</a>\u00a0Radio Kvrruf,\u00a0<a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/radiokurruf/videos/1139959930351923/\">Facebook video</a>, January 17, 2024.</p>\n<hr/>\n<p><em class=\"author-id\"><strong>Andy Higginbottom</strong> is a retired Associate Professor at Kingston University, London.\u00a0 See his related articles \u201c<a href=\"https://mronline.org/2019/07/17/global-britains-real-climate-changers-big-oil-must-be-taken-down/\">Global Britain\u2019s Real Climate Changers: Big Oil Must Be Taken Down</a>\u201d and \u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https://mronline.org/2020/05/26/oil-price-collapse-the-crisis/\">Oil price collapse &amp; the crisis</a>.\u201d</em></p>\n<p><em class=\"author-id\">Throughout its\u00a0history,\u00a0<strong>Monthly Review,</strong>\u00a0an independent socialist magazine, has relied on the support of our readers. 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