Toio Pons: hunger strike in solidarity with the Mapuche people

Toio Pons, member of the "Comitè de Solidaritat amb els Pobles d'Amèrica de Menorca", declared a hunger strike last May 13, before the electric company GESA in the Mahon port, to express his firm rejection of the construction by ENDESA of the hydroelectrical centre Ralco in the ancestral territory of the Mapuche people, situated on the shores of the Upper Bio-Bio river in Chile.

The construction firm is ENDESA. Chile, branch of the Spanish company ENDESA. For years, the Mapuche people have wanted to draw the attention of the international community to the aggressive expansion of ENDESA in Chile, that is putting the very survival of the Mapuche people in danger.

Last January, a delegation of the Mapuche people visited the Balearics, and interviewed many politicians, who expressed their clear support for the Mapuche cause. Amongst other actions, the Mallorcan Council approved an institutional declaration of support for the Mapuche people and the rejection of the ENDESA operations.

Toio Pons Bonet wants to call the attention of all those who are sensitive to this problem, and especially the politicians, for them to express their firm rejection of the aggression of ENDESA against the Mapuche people. Equally, Toio wants to make people and entities aware so that they can reconsider their relationship with the banking firms, La Caixa, Caja Madrid, BBVA and BSCH, important shareholders of ENDESA, that are supporting this political expansion of this company, with the already mentioned consequences.

You can contact Toio personally and express your support and solidarity. You will find him on his mobile phone 626 80 39 29.

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Datum: 18/05/2000

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