A group of activists for the rights of indigenous Mapuche Chileans interrupted the Easter mass at Santiago’s Metropolitan Cathedral on April 24 to call for the release of four Mapuche…

…the police break up Mapuche street protests violently and have raided Mapuche communities without proper authorization. “I’ve received a lot of documentation from NGOs [nongovernmental organizations] that I consider to…

…indigenous Mapuche activists were responsible for recent major forest fires in the Biobío and Araucanía regions. The complaint was based on an “anti-terrorism” law passed during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of…

…setting fire to ranches and agricultural machinery. The government is also talking about improving roads, schools and health care in the Mapuche region. The Mapuche are Chile’s largest indigenous group,…

…a show trial set up by prosecutors, police agents and business people to get Mapuche leaders behind bars and stop their struggle to recover Mapuche land. (Adital, Brazil, May 25;…

…end “the conflict created by the Chilean state by dispossessing the Mapuche communities of their ancestral land.” The Mapuche Territorial Alliance (ATM) demanded the immediate removal of local prosecutor Luis…