Security & Strategic Review - June 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)

CHILE | Radical Mapuche militancy ‘spreading’. In late May the director of Carabineros, General Gustavo González, acknowledged that, as business leaders had been claiming, violent acts presumably committed by radical Mapuche militants have been spreading southward from Araucanía into the adjoining region of Los Ríos. ‘There has indeed been a displacement, albeit minor,’ he said. ‘So far this year we have had three cases in the region of Los Ríos: the torching of machinery, a building and the most recent one [an arson attack against a rural estate in Malalhue, Lanco].’ In 2012, he noted, there had been 12 acts of violence; in 2014, three.