Forestal Mininco

{{Short description|Chilean forest products company}}

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name = Forestal Mininco S.A.

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| foundation = 1947 |

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parent = CMPC |

subsid = Bosques del Plata |

homepage = {{URL|https://www.forestalmininco.cl/|forestalmininco.cl}}

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Forestal Mininco is the forestry branch of wood product and woodpulp company CMPC. According to CMPC "Forestal Mininco territorially manages the forest heritage of CMPC in Chile."{{Cite web |url=https://www.cmpcmaderas.com/Forests |title=Harmoniously developing forestry practices |access-date=2022-04-02 |website=cmpcmaderas.com |language=Spanish}}

In the last decades Forestal Mininco have had a conflict, at times physically violent, with the indigenous Mapuche communities of Temucuicui, leading to the detention and imprisonment of community members in the prisons of Angol and Cañete.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latercera.com/noticia/temucuicui-la-comunidad-que-vive-en-alerta/|title=Temucuicui, la comunidad que vive en alerta|accessdate=April 16, 2017|last=Rodríguez|first=Sergio|date=December 8, 2013|language=Spanish|work=La Tercera}} Within the context of the Mapuche conflict Forestal Mininco has been accused by Mapuche organization Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco to work with gun-armed contractors.{{Cite journal |title=In Wallmapu, Colonialism and Capitalism Realign |journal=NACLA Report on the Americas |last=Nahuelpán |first=Héctor |date=2021-08-19 |last2=Martínez |first2=Edgars |publisher=Routledge |issue=3 |doi=10.1080/10714839.2021.1961469 |year= |last3=Hofflinger |first3=Alvaro |last4=Millalén |first4=Pablo}}

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