A piece of news.

A very shocking piece of news I recently read on internet was a raid in Ercilla, 9th  region. This news didn't appear in the official media, I read about it in a mail and in open newspaper called "El Ciudadano" and in the Bío Bío radio's online page.

According to those versions, a group of 200 police men with no identification or badges, break into a school in Temucuicui, where were in reunion some mapuche leaders with CONAF employees and  obviously, there were children inside the school. They confront and at the end of the raid there was 32 injured mapuches. The shocking part is that 7 of them were children and 7 were women, some of them pregnant, all of them injured by pellet.

Althought, there were children asphyxiated with tear gas and injured by unknown chemicals. They're from 10 days to 17 years old.

As I said, this news didn't appear in the popular and official newspaper, and the government said that they have a lot of doubts about this situation, I people shouldn't believe that this was completely true. I think this situation, like a lot others, affect all country, first of all, for the violence that police have implemented in the last time. They say is necessary to keep the calm... but what calm they're talking about?! All they do is converting all movements or activities in a little battlefield. And the second important thing, the media and the government are hiding information to people. This is a very large country and it's hard to know what's happening in other places, specially if there are people who are hiding the truth. That's the importance of citizen comunication media and the vast area of internet.

This kind of news I'd like to see on tv, read ion newspapers or hear on the radio. True and important issues, not burglaries in high society houses or how to steal a cash point with a car.