- PymeMad Nacional condemns the attack that occurred in the commune of Cunco, La Araucanía Region, on November 9, and urges the current and incoming government to implement structural solutions that go beyond political short-termism, warning that violence deters investment in a sector that plans on a 20-year horizon.
The Guild Association of Small and Medium-Sized Wood Industries (PymeMad) expresses its categorical rejection of the terrorist attack that occurred yesterday in Cunco, which destroyed equipment of a forestry contractor, demanding that the Chilean State provide substantive solutions that surpass short-term logic.
"The forestry sector cannot withstand this type of attack. We plant a tree today to harvest it in 20 years. That planning is incompatible with uncertainty and the lack of territorial governance," stated Michel Esquerré, national president of PymeMad.
The association warns that these acts of violence generate a withdrawal of sectoral investment, directly affecting thousands of families that depend on forestry activities and their productive chains.
We question the State's failure to fulfill a coordinating role between indigenous peoples, local communities, and productive sectors, allowing the conflict to persist without substantive solutions. "We cannot continue in a dynamic where each new government discards what was built by the previous one. The country urgently needs a serious conversation that recognizes the complexity of the problem but looks toward the future," stated Esquerré.
PymeMad urges the current government and calls on the incoming one to implement concrete measures: deep dialogue with communities and local authorities, decentralization of decisions from Santiago, effective cultural integration of indigenous peoples, and a forestry plan that transcends individual administrations.
"We cannot continue gambling with the country's future. The forestry sector, the greenest sector of the national economy, needs stability, security, and a long-term vision, not short-termism," concluded the president of PymeMad.