Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font announced Thursday in a broadcast message a comprehensive plan to address the Mapuche ...

The so-called “Mapuche conflict” has been going on for decades, as indigenous communities oppose agricultural and forestry companies exploiting lands considered ancestral. The Mapuche people ...

A special commission tasked with addressing land disputes and Indigenous rights in Chile delivered a historic final report to ...

But this is not where the story ends. What had been a simmering conflict between the Mapuche and the Chilean state over inequality, land ownership, discrimination and cultural identity since the ...

“It was like putting together a jigsaw puzzle,” he said. In the Chilean media, the modern “Mapuche conflict” is most often portrayed as a struggle between the order and reason of the ...

And therein lies the problem: Under Chile’s 1993 Indigenous Law, the state can give Mapuches land in areas where there is a conflict, after offering to buy it from its white owners. “ ...

Political analyst Lucía Dammert criticized Pinera's decision, saying that the deployment of troops could further intensify the Mapuche conflict. "The government has been unable to generate an ...

Arson attacks against trucks traveling through southern Chile. The long-simmering conflict between the Mapuche, Chile’s largest Indigenous group, and the government over land rights and cultural ...

Mapuche attacks against the government and ... “To measure the severity of the conflict in this area, we are talking about at least 25 highly serious criminal acts per month.

When Chile gets headlines in the international press, the Mapuche conflict is usually not among them. Coverage of this strangely shaped country, a thin ribbon on the Pacific stretching 2,650 miles ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A resistance group formed by the indigenous Mapuche people claimed responsibility ... cast the country's long-simmering Mapuche conflict into public view.