Rodrigo Alexis Cisterna Fernández (8 November 1980 – 3 May 2007) was a Chilean forestry worker shot and killed by police officer during a workers' protest for an improvement in their working conditions on the night of 3 May 2007, in the town of Laraquete, Arauco Province, Biobío Region, about 60 kilometers from the city of Concepción, in front of the Horcones Pulp Mill, owned by Chilean businessman Anacleto Angelini.
To this day, Chilean authorities have refused to charge police involved with his death, despite facing international backlash and legal action, including from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
[4] During May 2007, some 3,000 subcontracted forestry workers took to the streets to demonstrate for better working conditions, including an increase of 40,000 Chilean pesos to their base salary.
Members of the Special Forces of the Carabineros responded by shooting him four times, with the fatal bullet reaching his skull from behind, while five other workers were seriously injured.
[4] His death joins other emblematic cases of citizens killed in social protests during governments posterior to the military dictatorship in Chile, including the deaths of Daniel Menco, Alex Lemun Saavedra, Matías Catrileo, Jaime Mendoza Collio, and Camilo Catrillanca (the 4 latter being members of the indigenous Mapuche people).