http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2384498
(The Implementation of Ordinary and Anti Terror Criminal Law in Response to the Social Protest by the Indigenous Mapuche People from 2000 to 2010)
Eduardo Mella Seguel
Centro de Investigación y Defensa SUR
January 24, 2014
Abstract:
Spanish Abstract: El ascenso de los gobiernos socialistas a principios del 2000 y la implementación de un nuevo sistema de justicia en Chile se asociaron con un proceso de modernización de la sociedad chilena y también de “superación” definitiva – al menos en el discurso – de un pasado violento y autoritario, que prometía más y mayor justicia para todos los chilenos. Sin embargo, durante este periodo aumentó la persecución, criminalización y encarcelamiento en contra de miembros del pueblo originario mapuche.
English Abstract: This article maintains that despite the advent of socialist governments and reforms to the criminal justice system, political persecution, criminalization and incarceration have intensified over the past decade in Chile, affecting the political existence of the Mapuche people. Although the reforms to the criminal justice system promoted by the socialist governments were presented as tools to overcome the authoritarianism and violence of the dictatorship, this article demonstrates how the structural causes of the conflict between the Chilean state and the Mapuche people remain unresolved.
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Number of Pages in PDF File: 17
Keywords: Conflict resolution, criminal procedure reform, criminalization of protest, violence, mapuche, Chile, Concertación, reforma procesal penal, criminalización de la protesta, violencia
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2384498
