News of mapuche

Chile President Boric receives draft constitution

Today 13:22 Chile's constitutional convention on Monday handed its proposed new constitution to President Gabriel Boric ahead of a planned September referendum on adopting the text.

Indigenous Rights

Military redeployment turns Chile's Mapuche areas into powder keg

27-05-2022 14:51 With military troops once again patrolling their ancestral lands, members of the Mapuche indigenous community in Chile's south are angry.

Indigenous Rights

Chile military resumes patrols of restive Araucanía region

18-05-2022 17:06 Military patrols resume in Chile's southern Araucanía region as a response to mounting violence linked to territorial claims by the Mapuche Indigenous group.

Indigenous rights

Chile redeploys Army to southern region amid Mapuche tensions

17-05-2022 14:13 Chilean President Gabriel Boric's government decrees re-militarisation of troubled southern region of La Araucanía, in the face of mounting violence linked to territorial claims by Mapuche indigenous groups.

Indigenous rights

Mapuches seek agreements to solve 'historic debt' with Chile

22-04-2022 20:01 Representatives from Mapuche communities meet in the southern city of Temuco in search of agreements that allow them to settle, the "historical debt" that they consider that the Chilean State owes them.

Boric in Buenos Aires

Chile President Boric promises ‘dialogue’ to resolve Mapuche conflict

04-04-2022 17:08 Chilean leader vows to resolve ongoing conflict with indigenous Mapuche groups through "dialogue," denies any demands could call into question Argentina's territorial integrity.

COURTS

Chile's top court overturns ruling freeing Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala

16-02-2022 10:57 Supreme Court in Chile overturns ruling granting parole to controversial indigenous leader, who has been behind bars since 2018.

CRIME & THE COURTS

Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala freed by Chilean court

21-01-2022 23:49 A court in Chile on Friday freed Facundo Jones Huala, the leader of the Resistencia Ancestral Mapuche (RAM) indigenous Mapuche movement in Patagonia.

PROFILE: GABRIEL BORIC

New president at 35 thrusts Chile back into exceptionalism role

21-12-2021 15:44 While Gabriel Boric is sometimes described as part of a leftward shift in Latin America, he seems to be of a new, more globalist, breed.

Solar eclipse

Solar eclipse plunges southern Chile, Argentina into darkness

14-12-2020 20:36 Despite Covid-19 restrictions on movement, almost 300,000 tourists arrived in the Araucania region of Chile on Monday to witness the solar eclipse.