PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE FROM THE MAPUCHE CAM POLITICAL PRISONERS – LAUTARO CASE
Kiñe: First of all, thank all the people who accompanied us in this oral trial process in which, finally, we were wrongly convicted. To the different Mapuche communities, families and homes, to our people, all our gratitude goes.
Epu: We understand this sentence as the result of political persecution against the autonomist Mapuche movement, specifically against the CAM, an organization of which weichafe are proud. We show how this process was carried out in a biased and racist manner, which did not have any evidence that linked us, as well as the use of secret witnesses who, in the end, did not even testify in court.
Kvla: That, the Winka court convicted us for the crimes of repeated arson, theft, simple kidnapping and in two particular cases for carrying ammunition. Reclassifying two crimes and acquitting them of the crimes of carrying prohibited weapons, carrying conventional weapons and unjustified shooting.
Meli: We understand that the court, given the poor investigation by the prosecution and the solid arguments of our defenses, decided to make an ACCOMMODATION that would allow political condemnation at any cost against us, without in any case having the minimum elements to do so.
Kechu: With our heads held high we declare that we will not accept this disastrous condemnation and that, if the Chilean State persists in criminalizing and persecuting the historic and dignified Mapuche struggle, wanting to condemn us for it, that it at least take charge of the Rule of Law that they so proclaim, that it obtain the evidence and condemn under its laws, not based on tricks, falsehoods, political pressures and the use of the bourgeois press subservient to business interests.
Likewise, we call on the judiciary to stop being the punitive arm of fascism and the ultra-right in Wallmapu.
Kayu: Because of all of the above, on the day of the sentencing, we will begin a mobilization to denounce this flawed judicial process of which they made us a part. In this instance we also want to support our peñi Daniel Canio, who after having served more than half of his sentence is still being denied his prison benefits.
Having faced this process as pu weichafe, today convicted, we consider it necessary to address the Mapuche movement and our people in general after almost 4 years in prison and declare that we are not defeated, much less ashamed or regretful of embracing such a dignified and just struggle as ours, quite the contrary, we continue to advance with the determination of never kneeling before our enemies.
Finally, we call to continue in the weichan, to remain in the territorial dispute against the forestry companies and big business, to continue resisting the structural and colonialist racism of the Chilean State, even more so today where fascism and the Zionist extreme right govern.
Out with the foresters and soldiers of the wallmapu!!
The Mapuche resistance is not terrorism!!
Peñi Kincha treka rupaymi tüfachi Mapu Mew,welu Tami pülli rumel mongeleay rangi weychan Mew
Luis Menares Chanilao
Jorgue Caniupil Coña
Pelantaro Llaitul Pezoa
Juan Carlos Mardones
PPM-CAM
Werken News /Resumen Latinoamericano, June 30, 2026