LUMACO: MAPUCHE’S SELF-DETERMINIST MOVEMENT MADURATION

Abstract

On December 1st, 1997, three trucks owned  by Forestal Arauco were completely burned.  The incident shaked up all the Araucanía  Region and generated a qualitative change in  the politization of the mapuche people that  had started in the beginning of the democratic  transition. Lumaco defined a new stage in the  mapuche movement and history, where the idea  of a self-determination proyect appears more  clearly. It whas the beginning of an ideological  development for a sector of the mapuche  people who defined their anti-capitalism as a  central point of the movement, and symbolized  the resistance in the irruption of the political  violence as a resource to rebuild what they  called Wallmapu.