[NYTr] Indigenous Chilean Stopped from Traveling to Bolivia
 
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:40:48 -0600 (CST)

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Chile: Indigenous Leader Prevented from Traveling to Bolivia

Santiago de Chile, Jan 20 (Prensa Latina) The leader of All the 
Lands Council Aucan Huilcaman was taken off of a plane at Santiago 
International Airport when he was ready to fly to Bolivia to attend 
president-elect Evo Morales' inauguration ceremony.

Huilcaman, who is under an arrest warrant for taking part in 
protests against the governmental law on native peoples, was also 
specially invited by Morales, who is also an indigenous, to attend his 
investiture ceremony.

The Mapuche leader's plane was preparing for taking the LAN Chile flight 
to Iquique - Arica - La Paz when he was taken off the aircraft by officers
members of the International Police.

Huilcan and other leaders were preventing from leaving the country because 
of an arrest warrant stemming from their participation in protests in the 
Araucaria capital on January 10 when several mapuches' leaders 
occupied the regional administrative headquarter.

The former presidential candidate was accused, along with the other 
people arrested, for participating in disturbances that required him
to appear in court every 15 days; he is also forbidden from nearing
public buildings.

Huilcan said he would leave a message with the Bolivian Consulate 
to president-elect Morales explaining the reasons for his absence.

The organization All The Lands' Council denounced the action by the
police, calling them "discriminatory, abusive and persecutory 
against the indigenous peoples who comprise more than 5 percent of 
the 15,1 million of inhabitants in the country.

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