Matías Santana was arrested this Saturday in Bariloche after spending more than a year on the run. He is being prosecuted for his false account of how the Gendarmerie would have taken Santiago Maldonado.

Santana was not always a radicalized Mapuche militant. He was looking for his destiny. It could be said that he found it in the arms of Betiana Colhuan, the machi who glimpsed the promised land, the young woman who had the vision that guided the Mapuches to the area.