Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala arrested in Argentina

The police of the Argentine province of Rio Negro captured this Monday Facundo Jones Huala, leader of the “Mapuche Ancestral Resistance” and fugitive from Chilean justice for almost a year after escaping during his probation period.

The security forces of Río Negro have detailed that the arrest of Huala took place in a house in the town of El Bolsón, thus culminating an investigation that has been going on for several months.

After receiving an alert call from a neighbor in the area, the police went to where they found the Mapuche leader in a notorious state of drunkenness and dressed in women’s clothes, according to the Argentine newspaper ‘Clarín’.

The Chilean Prosecutor’s Office has already processed the extradition request “for the purposes of serving the sentence that is still pending and for which today (Jones Huala) is in the condition or quality of a fugitive”, reports Radio BioBio.

Huala had been sentenced in 2018 to nine years in prison in Chile after being charged with the crimes of arson and illegal possession of weapons but took the opportunity to flee when judicial authorities granted him parole, details Chilean broadcaster T13.

With information from LGI

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