A Mapuche Academian at a university that reproduces colonialism

I wasn’t lucky enough to take your class when I entered in this university career, but the influence of her been so transversal that, even so, I have been able to share quite a few moments together. She, Verónica Figueroa Huencho, has been responsible, during her 18 years as public administrator, for broadening the horizon of research regarding the indigenous people existing the territory where we live.

In addition, she has become Director of the Escuela de Gobierno y Gestión Pública of her alma mater, the Universidad de Chile, even when, on more than one occasion criticized the role that “la Chile” has taken in terms of public policies, in relation to the systematic violation of human rights, exercised from Estado de Chile towards these peoples, as it does with the rest of country.

In January, and until May, she will become one of the few woman who have a played the role of visiting teacher, of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies of Harvard University; “la profe Vero” is incredible, a great reference of knowledge and of our peoples… Amulepe taiñ weichan!