After meeting with regional governor Luciano Rivas, Monsalve said the plan aims to strengthen police capacity to continue their prevention work and control acts of violence.
The new Chilean government that came to power on March 11 ruled out extending the state of emergency in the so-called southern macro-zone, decreed by the previous government, which allowed the deployment of military forces there and provoked resentment from the Mapuche people .
According to the Undersecretary of State for the Interior, dialogue is the way to solve the structural problems in La Araucanía and throughout southern Chile.
This region is the site of an ancient conflict that dates back to the founding of the Chilean state when the Mapuche were stripped of their ancestral lands, now in the hands of forestry companies.
Numerous acts of violence have been recorded there in recent years, including the burning of land, houses and agricultural machinery, roadblocks and armed attacks that resulted in the death of Mapuche indigenous people and farmers.
Monsalve advocated a dialogue in which no question is excluded, including the territorial claim and the reorganization of the presence of business activities in the region.
“The principle of dialogue is to acknowledge that there are others who have different stories, different worldviews, different thoughts and different traditions, and we want to acknowledge those others who are First Nations in Chile,” he said.
The Under Secretary of the Interior is making a four-day visit to the region, where he will meet with governors, mayors and other authorities; as well as with representatives of indigenous communities, prosecutors, businessmen and police forces.
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