A hidden new

I haven't really heard a lot about this new, or at least never accidentally, because it has been kind of hidden for the media. Since I knew about the mapuches on hunger strike, I started looking for more information, because the radio, tv and newspapers weren’t saying anything about it, but in some internet websites I found the information I was looking for. They are around 31 people, from different parts of the country, but principally from the IX and VII regions. They have been not eating for more than 50 days, because they are asking to be judge for the civil law and not for the antiterrorist law that is being applied to them, without considering that that law was created in dictatorship. Also, big problems with that law, is that you are not “innocent until proven otherwise” like in the regular cases, and also, that the witness is anonymous so you can’t know who is blaming you. To all the problems already mentioned we can add the discrimination problem, because with the prejudge that actually exists against the mapuches, just for being accused of burning a house, (with an anonymous witness which you can’t argue with or at least knowing if you know this people, if he or she lives in your town, or whatever) you are immediately guilty… so it’s really unfair, and a violation to the human rights. I think it’s really impressive, because of many things. In first place because I noted how much can the Medias control our life and our knowledge of the world, second, because I understand how this government can speak and refer a lot of other country problem (like the man in hunger strike in Cuba for example) and be totally quiet about our problems, third because I wonder when this country is going to be really a just place if our authorities can’t even talk about our problems, and even less taking the responsibility and working for this people and all the repressed ant not listened ones.