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16 January 2018
UN indigenous rights chief urges Chile to stop using the country's anti-terrorism law to prosecute the Mapuche people
BOGOTA, Jan 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Latin America is trampling on indigenous rights and jailing ever more campaigners to stifle opposition to big business taking over…
27 November 2017
“Today we mourn the fallen, but they died in a dignified way on Mapuche territory, on their land,” a relative of the deceased Mapuche member said.
Following the murder of a 21-year Mapuche member by Argentine police, the Indigenous community has declared it will continue to fight for its land…
10 November 2017
El capital financiero que circula por el planeta muestra un creciente interés en la adquisición de tierra, actividad que toma forma desde la explotación minera a la agricultura. Un proceso con fuertes efectos en los pequeños propietarios, en los modos de vida y en la concentración de los…
8 October 2017
La Fundación para la Innovación Agraria, participará de esta feria organizada por INDAP, donde entregará el Premio a la Innovación Expomundorural, que reconoce la labor que ha tenido la pequeña agricultura para el sector y la innovación. Además, estará presente con 10 expositores que rescatan y…
18 May 2017
SANTIAGO, May 18 2017 (IPS) - Water at high prices, sold as a market good, and small farmers almost a species in extinction, replaced by seasonal workers, are the visible effects of the crisis in rural Chile, 50 years after a land reform which postulated that “the land is for those who work it…
27 February 2017
By: Javiera Quiroga
Date: 27 February 2017
Source:Bloomberg
Landslides close to the Chilean capital Santiago killed three people over the weekend, while cutting off water supplies to millions of homes, the National Emergency Office said.
Another 373 people remain cut off after the rains swept away…
27 January 2017
By: Orlando Milesi
Date: 26 Janaury 2017
Source: Inter Press Service
The lands where the Mapuche indigenous people live in southern Chile are caught up in a spiral of violence, which a presidential commission is setting out to stop with 50 proposals, such as the constitutional recognition of…
By: Max Radwin
Date: February 1st 2016
Source: Pulitzer Center
CONCEPCIÓN, Chile - While some of the indigenous Mapuche in Chile are picketing in the streets of Santiago for better political representation or setting fire to vehicles in the rural south to protest ancestral land reparations, the…
By: José Aylwin
Date: February 28th 2016
Source: IC Magazine / Intercontinentalcry.org
THE IMPACTS OF FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS
This article is based in part on a previous paper written by the author on “The TPPA and Indigenous Peoples: Lessons from Latin America” published in No Ordinary Deal:…
By: Nicolás Ríos
Date: March 30th 2016
Source: Vice News
Sonia Navarrete, the owner of a small forestry business in Chile, was on her way home one day in June 2015 when she and her husband were ambushed by a group of five hooded men. The attackers tied them up and held them captive for an hour,…
By: Jessica Ramos
Date: April 3rd 2016
Source: Care2.com
The Mapuche are the original inhabitants of Chile and Argentina, and they’ve been defending their area from Spanish invaders and the Republics of Chile and Argentina for centuries.
One of the biggest blows to the Mapuche occurred between 1860…
By: The Editors
Date: September 7th 2016
Source: World Politics Review
Indigenous groups in Chile are calling for the release of Machi Francisca Linconao, a spiritual leader of the Mapuche people who has been imprisoned for arson since 2013 under the country’s controversial counterterrorism law…