Seven Mapuche activists went on hunger strike to protest what they consider the Chilean government’s repression of struggles by the indigenous group to regain ancestral lands.
A panel of UN human rights experts urged Chile to make sure that people who have been convicted of enforced disappearances all serve their sentences.
Chilean high school students occupied at least 10 public high schools in a continuation of protests for educational reform that started more than a year ago.
Students occupied public high schools in Santiago in the latest protest against the privatization of Chile’s educational system that started under the Pinochet dictatorship.
Contract workers occupied the San Ambrosio Church in Vallenar, Chile, to protest labor conditions at the Pascua Lama open-pit gold mine in the high Andes.
Some 200 carabineros militarized police violently removed about 60 Mapuche on July 23 from land the indigenous people had occupied hours earlier near their homes in the Temucuicui community in the southern Chilean region of AraucanÃa. The carabineros threw tear gas grenades and fired… Read moreChile: Carabineros attack Mapuche children
