“We will find Julia with the pressure from all organizations, with the strength of the people,” Lucia Sepulveda, spokesperson for the Movement for Water and Territories, told Prensa Latina.

The demonstration takes place just a few days after attorney Karina Riquelme told reporters about the existence of an audio recording in which forestry businessman Juan Carlos Morstadt, one of the suspects, tells her father that Chunil had been burned.

The new evidence led authorities and political and social organizations to demand a thorough investigation into the case.

Sepulveda said, “Unfortunately, National Prosecutor Angel Valencia tried to downplay the situation and said that what would be analyzed was why the leak occurred, and not its content.”

Julia Chunil, 73, who was the president of the Mapuche community of Putreguel, was last seen on November 8, 2024, when she left home with her dog to feed the animals.

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