Huenchullán Family Issues Formal Denunciation Accusing Chilean State of 'Racist Structure' That Criminalizes Temucuicui

On May 23, 2026, the family of detained Mapuche werkén Jorge Huenchullán Cayul issued a formal public denunciation accusing the Chilean state of operating through a 'racist structure' that systematically targets and criminalizes the Autonomous Community of Temucuicui. The statement argued that the drug trafficking and illegal weapons charges against Huenchullán are politically fabricated to protect the interests of multinational forestry companies and local landowners who benefit from the continued dispossession of Mapuche ancestral lands. The family highlighted what they characterized as a coordinated three-week pattern of escalation: the May 6 armed operation detaining five community members, the May 14 raid on the community school during which Carabineros allegedly fired 400+ rounds, the formal accusations of evidence planting filed May 15, and now the helicopter-extraction and preventive detention of the community's chief spokesman. Huenchullán remains in preventive custody in Collipulli with prosecutors seeking 18 years' imprisonment. Mapuche solidarity organizations across Chile and international indigenous rights bodies amplified the denunciation, calling for UN Special Rapporteur monitoring of events at Temucuicui.