Forestal Mininco is the forestry branch of wood product and woodpulp company

CMPC The Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus (russian: Конфедерация горских народов Кавказа) (until 1991 known as Assembly of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus) was a militarised political organisation i ...

. According to CMPC "Forestal Mininco territorially manages the forest heritage of CMPC in Chile." In the last decades Forestal Mininco have had a conflict, at times physically violent, with the indigenous

Mapuche The Mapuche ( (Mapuche & Spanish: )) are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-ranging ethnicity composed of various groups who sha ...

communities of

Temucuicui Temucuicui or Temocuicui (from '' Mapudungun'' ''Temu kuykuy'', " temu bridge") is a locality made up a group of Mapuche communities in the commune of Ercilla, Malleco Province, Araucanía Region, in Chile. The Mapuche communities established the ...

, leading to the detention and imprisonment of community members in the prisons of

Angol Angol is a commune and capital city of the Malleco Province in the Araucanía Region of southern Chile. It is located at the foot of the Nahuelbuta Range and next to the Vergara River, that permitted communications by small boats to the Bío-Bío ...

and Cañete. Within the context of the

Mapuche conflict The Mapuche conflict ( es, conflicto mapuche) involves indigenous peoples, indigenous Mapuche communities located in Araucanía (historic region), Araucanía and nearby regions of Chile and Puelmapu, Argentina. It is often referred to as a confli ...

Forestal Mininco has been accused by Mapuche organization

Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM) is a radical, militant indigenous organization engaged in political violence in pursuit of attaining an autonomous Mapuche state in the territory they describe as Wallmapu. Founded in 1998 in Tranaquepe, Chile, CA ...

to work with gun-armed contractors.

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{{reflist Forestry in Chile Companies based in Santiago Chilean companies established in 1947