"Violent attacks in Southern Macrozone increased by 169 percent last month", 28 April 2022

...A recent report released by the Federation of La Auracanía Guilds shows that attacks in the Southern Macrozone, which comprises the Central South regions of La Araucanía, Los Ríos, Los Lagos, and Biobío, have increased by 169 percent since the end of the constitutional State of Emergency on Mar. 26, 2022...

When it comes to the types of crime committed, arson attacks increased by 106 percent and armed attacks by 650 percent. Santibáñez said he believed that most of them were perpetrated by paramilitary groups such as the Arauco-Malleco Coordinator (CAM)...

“The CAM cannot be put in the same sack as all the other groups. We have nothing to do with actions where lives were lost. We have been very clear about this. Since the creation of the CAM more than 23 years ago, we have taken only direct actions and territorial recovery processes against forestry companies, hydroelectric companies, or other capitalist investment interests,” the leader of CAM Hector Llaitul told Al Jazeera...

Most of the land in this area is now owned and exploited by forestry companies, which leave very little of it to the local indigenous communities. The benefits extracted from exploiting this land are practically never shared with the Mapuche, so a number of armed groups started carrying out attacks against companies and large farming estates by destroying their equipment, trucks and property.

There have however also been recent instances where small Chilean farms have been targeted and non-indigenous Chilean civilians were attacked or killed, events that had very rarely taken place in the past. There has also been a growing number of arson attacks on homes and shootouts with fatalities in the last year, making the area highly unsafe for local residents...