This text was distributed today in the meeting for the freedom of Mireya Figueroa, who’s in a bad stated of health and with permantent police vigilance because her condition of mapuche political prisoner.

For who don’t know her, Mireya Figueroa is a mapuche fighter of the Tricauco comunity, in the Ercilla zone (IX Región). She was until a few time around 6 years of clandestinity. Womand and moder of 48 years old, she is in the hospital because a breast cancer expanded until her column. This caused her sever bones problems.

Mireya got a false accusation of burning the Pidenco Farm in 2001, the same cause that keeps in jail to well known strugglers of our people like José Huenchunao, Patricia Troncoso, Jaime and Patricio Marileo, Juan Carlos Huenulao, and others. In the years that this fucked up process begin, that involved false proofs and witness without faces, against all the peope accused of burning the Miningo forestal farm, Mireya Figueroa declines the resolutions of the chilean justice, keeping herself in clandestinity. In thouse years she said “maybe they will arrest me, but i will fight for make that not happen. I’ll confront the justice, i’m not planning to avoid it, but i’ll only when the state can give me the warranty of the just process. Whithout witness without faces and paid”, she said that in 2004.

Today, she is in the Sala Amesti of Surgery of the Santiago’s Hospital, on drugs to keep herself a little away of the intense pain and always under the eye of gendarmerie, she keeps her message clear, always against the State and with the conviction of the fight of our people. The arrest of the lamgen Mireya increase the number of the mapuche political prisoners. With all the things that happened in the last weeks, it made public that the persecution to the mapuche nation haven’t stopped and will not stop while we keep our dreams of be free people and with the territory that always belong us.