“With the determination of those responsible in the set-up in the Huracán case, the repressive policy of the State is well established and has had and continues with all previous governments and the current one, which, in our opinion, is the worst of all for leaving on a platter to the ultra-right the certain possibility of policies of extermination of our people…”
Knowing the verdict handed down by the Temuco Court in the so-called Huracán Case and which reveals one of the most serious police setups since the end of the civil-military dictatorship, we want to highlight that, beyond the conviction of two generals and the operational heads of the intelligence unit, this resolution does not directly establish, nor does it point out anything about the responsibility of the political authorities who were involved in this intelligence operation against the Mapuche movement in struggle.
Because it must be absolutely clear that it was an operation directed against the Mapuche Autonomist and Revolutionary Movement, where not only evidence was fabricated, information was manipulated that ended with Mapuche community members arrested based mainly on false messages, but also attempted to distort the true nature of the historical conflict.
By the way, we are referring to the responsibility of the government of Michelle Bachelet and her Undersecretary of the Interior Mahmud Aleuy, who are directly responsible for the implementation of this repressive policy of persecution.
Along with this omission, and beyond the fact that it has not been possible to criminally configure the idea of an illicit association to mount evidence against community members – which would have implications in other cases -, here is another aspect that raises a lot of distrust and that has to do with a kind of compromise that the state institutions have offered to the business community, those that are directly committed to our fight for Mapuche territorial and political claims.
A negotiation that offers stability so that the powerful continue plundering the ancestral Wallmapu.
This is why we can deduce and affirm that, from the beginning, the objective sought by this intelligence operation was to try to distort and muddy the just and centuries-old struggle of our Nation People, inventing a supposed intersection of communication and information of the different expressions of the Mapuche cause.
We are also of the opinion that the responsibilities in the Huracán case are not limited to the political, police and prosecutorial authorities.
The media dimension, the actions of the large media outlets at the service of the powerful, have also not been subject to criminal charges, official and right-wing media belonging to large economic groups that contributed to legitimizing an operation that was fraudulent and criminal. A journalism that, as in the times of the dictatorship, has become, by action or negligence, an ally of a state-business setup.
A repressive and fraudulent state policy
We believe that the background of mounting tests responds to a State policy with the aim of primarily persecuting our organization, the expression of struggle that is the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco – CAM and its historical leadership.
Because it was not only about demonizing it, but also about distorting its objectives, its scope, the approaches and the political action, that is, trying to hit the process of transformations against extractivist policies, as well as against the plundering of ancestral territory, to achieve the development of a proposal for the reconstruction of the Mapuche Nation based, mainly, on a project of rearticulation of communities with an autonomist and self-determination perspective, a process based on an anti-capitalist praxis, anti-oligarchic and anti-imperialist.
In this context, the direction of this assembly was very clear, going against a leadership consistent with the revolutionary approaches from the Mapuche world. It is for this reason that we maintain that the scope of Huracán persists, because the leaders who follow the path of territorial and revolutionary political struggle today are prisoners by the Chilean State itself.
It is also necessary to emphasize that with the determination of those responsible for the set-up in the Huracán case, the repressive policy of the State is well established and that it continues with all previous governments and the current one, which, in our opinion, is the worst of all for leaving on a platter to the ultra-right the certain possibility of policies of extermination of our people.
A new justice as far as possible
With this judicial resolution it has been intended to establish justice, but the truth is that it only favors the usurpers, by trying to cover up those who ordered the set-up, the political power of the day that was not reached.
With this sentence, only some will be left with lesser or remitted sentences, despite the fact that the evidence, the facts portray and reveal the actions of the State as a whole.
It is the state institutionality that continued and never stopped in its persecution against the Mapuche Autonomist and Revolutionary Movement. Let us remember that with Piñera complaints were filed against Mapuche werkenes and that Boric expanded them; that with Piñera the State of Exception was imposed, and that with Boric they have become permanent in Wallmapu, consolidating the militarization so desired and applauded by the extreme right.
The police involved will not be sentenced to high sentences as is the case with the weichafe who have been sentenced to more than 40 years in prison. Not even those who murdered our weichafe from behind have been fairly condemned.
Another no small aspect is that this government, along with establishing greater repression, gave the green light to practically the same agencies and agents of the State to devise and apply other intelligence operations, and thereby prosecute and condemn the leaders of the CAM. Therefore, we believe that, currently, with the militarization of Wallmapu and the new imposed order, impunity will prevail for the repressors of the Mapuche cause.
We are your ‘internal enemy’
With the experience of the Huracán case there is a clear consequence and projection, because despite the condemnation of some State agents that includes police generals, the repressive logic and doctrine was maintained and will continue in Wallmapu.
Evidence of this is that despite the background and the length of the case process, this government deepened the repression and political persecution of the movement in struggle, reestablishing the national security doctrine and defining the Mapuche nation as its “internal enemy.”
It was after the Huracán set-up, when the Piñera government filed the complaint against the main leaders of the CAM, primarily against me, (since I had circumvented the Huracán set-up, the main objective of this intelligence operation), a complaint that was expanded with Boric and resulted in the arrest warrant and conviction arbitrarily and without due process.
Today we intend to present the criminal prosecution of a group of police officers, which meant persecuting the actions of the Mapuche movement, only with bad actions, when the background was and is to legitimize the persecution and repression, at any cost, of a political proposal for the liberation and reconstruction of the Mapuche Nation.
The Huracán case continues
In our opinion, the Huracán case, as we pointed out, has not ended, it persists at least in its logic and corrupt practices.
It should be remembered that during the second Piñera government it was Luis Hermosilla who advised on a type of criminal prosecution in the complaints against the Mapuche movement, in addition to racist prosecutors and a corrupt police (the case of Héctor Espinoza).
Subsequently, with the current Boric government, the same prosecutors who participated in the Huracán case have continued in their positions persecuting militants of the Mapuche cause.
To conclude, I must assume a consistent position and affirm that I was convicted under the same logic and repressive policy that derived from the Huracán case, it was certainly in a more meticulous and directed manner, but with the same method of a set-up. Because the purpose was to achieve a conviction as much as possible, the State Security law was applied to me, a regulation that allows political persecution, and which resulted in 15 years in prison just for expressing opinions.
I was also convicted of crimes associated with this law in events where evidence was mounted and records were manipulated (with artificial intelligence) so that judges, in a racist manner and pressured by corporate political power, sentenced me to long prison sentences.
In short, it is clearly established that it was a political condemnation, for reasons of State and business pressure, the same one that mandated the Huracán case.
It should be noted and finally, that despite the persecution, militarization and intelligence operations, the struggle and resistance of the autonomous Mapuche communities continues.
Héctor Llaitul.-
SOURCE: El Ciudadano.com
Resumen Latinoamericano, 13 January 2026