By Raúl Zibechi
After a 109-day hunger strike, Patricia Troncoso forced Michelle Bachelet’s insensitive government to yield and allow her weekend passes and completion of her sentence at a work-study center. Two other prisoners will reap the same benefits.
A new chapter now unfolds in the long Mapuche battle.
Raúl Zibechi is an international analyst for Brecha, a weekly journal in Montevideo, Uruguay, professor and researcher on social movements at the Multiversidad Franciscana de América Latina, and adviser to social groups. He is a monthly contributor to the CIP Americas Program (www.americaspolicy.org).
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Other recent articles by Raul Zibechi:
The Militarization of the World’s Urban Peripheries
Mexico’s Street Brigade: Sex, Revolution, and Social Change