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Chile: five more join Mapuche prisoners’ fast
Five Mapuche prisoners began a hunger strike on Oct. 1 in Temuco, joining four Mapuche prisoners who have been on hunger strike in Angol since Aug. 27.
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Chile: Mapuches block roads to protest court decision
Huilliche activists blocked a highway, burning rubbish and setting up barricades to protest a Supreme Court decision denying them access to a sacred site.
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Chile: outrage explodes on the ‘other 9-11’
Santiago exploded into a night of street fighting that left one officer of the Carabineros dead after a court ruled that President Salvador Allende committed suicide during the 1973 coup.
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Chile: Mapuche prisoners start latest hunger strike
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.
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Brazil: judge agrees to first war crimes trial for members of dictatorship
A Brazilian federal judge in Pará agreed to conduct the first trial against members of the former dictatorship for war crimes during the military’s rule from 1964-1985.
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Brazil: court blocks mega-hydro to protect Pantanal
A Brazilian judge ruled that permits for more than 120 proposed hydro-electric dams in the Upper Paraguay River Basin cannot be issued without impact assessments.
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Chile urged to ensure justice for victims of enforced disappearances
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.
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Chile: students reject government’s new tax law
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.
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Chile: students occupy schools to demand reform
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.
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Brazil mobilizes troops to southern borders in anti-narco drive
Brazil has mobilized nearly 9,000 military troops to its borders with four neighboring countries as part of an operation aimed at interrupting narco-trafficking networks.
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Chile: mine workers occupy church in protest
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.
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Brazil: court orders Chevron to suspend drilling
A federal court in Brazil ordered Chevron and drilling company Transocean to suspend all oil drilling in the country within 30 days in the wake of two spills off Rio de Janeiro.