Pedro Cayuqueo

Pedro César Cayuqueo Millaqueo (b. Puerto Saavedra, December 28, 1975) is a Mapuche-Chilean journalist and activist involved in the Mapuche struggle.

Pedro Cayuqueo
Born
Pedro César Cayuqueo Millaqueo

December 28, 1975
Puerto Saavedra, Araucanía Region, Chile
NationalityChilean
Alma materUniversidad de La Frontera
OccupationJournalist
Known forMapuche activism
Notable work
Historia secreta mapuche
MovementCoordinadora Arauco-Malleco (1998–2001)
Criminal charge(s)Usurpation of land and wood theft[1][2]
Criminal penalty61 days in prison and a fine[1]
AwardsSantiago Municipal Literature Award (2018)
Websitewww.pedrocayuqueo.cl

Biography

Cayuqueo has authored various books on opinion journalism and investigative journalism. He is director off Mapuche Times, and was also until 2013 director of the newspaper Azkintuwe, which was in cicurlation in Chile y Argentina for a decade until it closed down in 2013. From 2015 to 2016 he was TV conductor of the Mapuche culture program "Kulmapu" which was aired by CNN Chile and VTR. Cayuqueo has one daughter and lives at present in Temuco.

In late 1998 Cayuqueo joined Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM). He represented the organisation in 1999 before the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights en Geneva, Switzerland.[3] Back in Chile in May 1999 Special Prosecutor Archivaldo Loyola ordered his imprisonment in Traiguén accusing him of usurpation of land, theft of wood and misprision of felony. Other leaders of the CAM were also accused of the same crimes.[4]

The legal charges caused Cayuqueo to leave his law studies in Temuco Catholic University. He spent time in the prisons of Lebu, Traiguén and Nueva Imperial. After an internal fracture in Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco Cayuqueo left the organisation in 2001.

Works
  • Solo por ser indios, Catalonia, Santiago, 2012
  • La voz de los lonkos, Catalonia, Santiago, 2013
  • Esa ruca llamada Chile, Catalonia, Santiago, 2014
  • Huenchumilla. La historia del hombre de oro, Catalonia, Santiago, 2015
  • Fuerte Temuco, Catalonia, Santiago, 2016
  • Historia secreta mapuche, Catalonia, Santiago, 2017
  • Porfiada y rebelde es la memoria, Catalonia, Santiago, 2018

Awards
  • Premio del Colegio de Periodistas de Chile 2011
  • Premio al Periodismo Iberoamericano Samuel Chavkin 2013 (North American Congress on Latin America y la Universidad de Nueva York)
  • Premio Municipal de Literatura De Santiago, best non-fiction work 2018

References
  1. Pedro Cayuqueo Millaqueo ha sido trasladado a una cárcel más próxima a su familia
  2. Chile: Persecución contra el periodista mapuche Pedro Cayuqueo
  3. Breve biografía en Espacio Público Archived January 18, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, s/f; access January 20, 2016
  4. El perfil y la historia del escritor mapuche Pedro Cayuqueo
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