Isabel Huala (mother of political prisoner Facundo Jones Huala.
I am Maria Isabel Huala, I come from Bariloche and I am the mother of the LoncoFacuandoHuala who is being held in jail, in Unit 14 of Esquel, awaiting a second trial for the same cause when it is illegal within the Constitution and the laws of Argentina. He had said that the 27 and 28 was going to be the trial in Bariloche but until now nothing is known. He also showed up yesterday or yesterday to ask for his house arrest. Nothing has been said either.
And well he is going through his imprisonment with dignity inside the jail of Esquel as a Mapuche political prisoner condemned by the two states, by the two republics, by the Republic of Chile and the Argentine Republic because he was imprisoned in Calimayen, in Roque Calimayen in 2013 for a supposed fire to a farm to which he had gone to ask for medicine to the machi and for being the visible face because she was against the hydroelectric, 6 people in her house were detained.They were in prison for several months, the other Lamien were acquitted for lack of evidence and Facundo decided to go underground for the abuses and harassment of the Carabineers because he had to go look for the signature of the house prison where he was. From that moment, long before really, the political persecution had begun but from that moment is when he goes underground and he is found in the PulofCushamen. He was there because in the middle of all this he had to be named Lonco in his territory with the family, with his father's family.
This persecution and all this that we lived today is coming from the Conquest of the Desert and the Pacification of the Araucania, it is not new there was genocide on our people. The official history continues to hide us and continues to deny us as part of the territory but we know that we have thousands of years in these places both here and in Buenos Aires. The territory extends from sea to sea and we are Mapuche because we are part of the earth we are people that we are part of the earth and that is what it is defended, so today he is a prisoner.
It is not because he has gone underground or because he has burned a house but because the political persecution comes from colonialism, the extractivism that they want to carry forward, the dirty business and when one raises the voice it stops being the good Indian that is submissive and folkloric. It turns into violent, terrorist today, forty years ago they were subversives. So this is a systematic plan and a systematic state terrorism that we cannot allow. Everyone in their place in their territory has to fight to go out and raise their voices to go out and denounce and as long as we can unite in spite of the differences we have, cultural ones, political ones, we have to fight because it is the time of the, the time of struggle.
Thank you.