Mapuche: Chilean Majority In Favor Of Mapuche Demands

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April 18, 2013

Following survey carried out by consulting company Imaginación, the Central University and Radio Cooperativa, 65.2% of interviewees support the claims of Mapuche people including self-determination.

A big majority of Chilean citizens support the main aspirations of social sectors for education and the demands of the Mapuche people, evidenced a survey conducted here [Chile].

The poll showed that 86 percent of those interviewed support the calls to end profiteering in education and to promote that it be public, free for all and of quality.

The survey carried out by consulting company Imaginación together with the Central University and Radio Cooperativa, evidenced that 61.2 percent of those interviewed supported social mobilizations for educational reform, most of them promoted by the students.

The 64.6 percent considered the violence generated in these mobilizations is preventable, in sharp contrast to 35.4 percent who believe those incidents are inevitable.

As for the indigenous issue, 65.2 percent were in favor of the demands of the Mapuche people.

Among other claims, leaders of that community demand self-determination and that treaties should respect and comply in good faith with the two pacts of 1823 and 1825, which recognize that original people as a community with well-defined borders.

They also vindicate ancestral lands of their own in 15 thousand hectares that are presently in the hands of lumber companies, the tax system and farmers.

The survey that approaches other domestic and foreign policy issues, was conducted by telephone to all the nation, with a margin of error of 4.3 percent and a confidence level of 95 percent, according to the report broadcast by Radio Cooperative.

Source: UNPO

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