Fasting Mapuche leader sends new proposal to Chilean government

This call was made amid the Mapuche people's fight for the liberation of spiritual advisor (Machi) Celestino Cordova.

Mapuche people condemned Chile's capitalist regime, which, they said, is the main responsible for the domination and oppression of this Indigenous people and called on people around the world to support their demands.

The Arauco-Malleco Coordination (CAM) said: "We are calling on the people to carry out sabotage against capital, forestry industry, and other capitalist investments that threaten Mapuche People's lives."

This call was made amid the Mapuche people's fight for the liberation of spiritual advisor (Machi) Celestino Cordova.

"We support the machi Celestino Cordova's struggle and all the Mapuche political prisoners," the Indigenous organization added.

The spiritual authority, who has completed over 106 days on hunger strike, announced that he had stopped drinking water. His decision seeks to pressure President Sebastian Piñera's administration to respect the Indigenous people's rights.

To stop his strike, Cordova urged to serve part of his sentence in his community, and the release of all the political prisoners on hunger strike.

"No authority can give him what he asks for," Chile's Justice Minister Hernan Larrain said as he announced that Cordova could only hold a few benefits. Among them, Cordova could visite his community only once for 14 or 15 hours.

The government and Machi Celestino Cordova are talking, said the Machi's spokeswoman adding that today there could be some announcement.