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Chile: Mapuche continue drive for land
After two decades of struggle Mapuche communities are still trying to regain ancestral land. Meanwhile, forestry companies try to blame major fires on Mapuche activists.
Tag: Mapuche
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Chile: local Mapuche leader murdered
Unknown assailants killed a spokesperson for a Mapuche community that has carried out several land occupations. He was the second activist from his family to die violently.
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Argentina: new energy law seeks foreign capital
Argentina's center-left government passed a law to attract foreign investment in oil production, especially for hydrofracking in the Vaca Muerta shale deposits.
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Chile: Bachelet promises new Mapuche policy
Chile's Socialist president Bachelet says she'll "achieve progress" on indigenous issues, but activists can't forget the lack of progress in her previous administration.
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Chile: water activist to be jailed for ‘slander’
Environmentalists accuse a former interior minister of diverting water illegally to his farming operations—so a local court punishes the environmentalists.
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Chile: Mapuche environmental activist dies
Chilean indigenous activist Nicolasa Quintreman apparently drowned after falling into the reservoir of the dam whose construction she protested for 10 years.
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Chile: special forces raid Mapuche community
Chilean police invaded an indigenous Mapuche community and arrested four leaders—weeks after a community leader presented the Mapuche case to human rights groups in Europe.
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Chile: thousands mark 40th anniversary of coup
Performance art, floral tributes and militant protests marked 40 years since a military coup brought Chile a 17-year dictatorship, 3,000 deaths and thousands of cases of torture.
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Argentina: Mapuche block oil facility after fires
An indigenous Mapuche community blocked access to the Argentine state oil company’s wells and derricks after five of the village’s buildings were set on fire.
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UN expert urges Chile to stop using anti-terror law
The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism urged Chilean authorities to refrain from applying anti-terrorism laws against the Mapuche indigenous people.
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Chile: Mapuche step up struggle for land and water
Mapuche activists are occupying land, planning a march to protest the usurpation of their territory—and questioning the safety of Chile’s growing salmon farming industry.
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Argentina: Mapuche occupy oil wells to protest Chevron
Mapuche in southwestern Argentina followed through on their promise to block oil drilling by Chevron in their territory—they occupied four oil wells.