SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Chile has embarked on a procurement program to better equip its national police force and gendarmes for a crackdown on Mapuche rebels in the south-central regions of ...

TEMUCO, Chile – When Pope Francis visits the de facto capital of Chile's Mapuche people this week, he'll be inserting himself into an extended and sometimes violent conflict involving indigenous ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The ‘increasingly radicalized’ Mapuche Indians in Chile became a growing ...

PEDRO CAYUQUEO, Chile (AP) — The Mapuches, Chile’s biggest Indigenous group, have endured centuries of battle. They resisted conquest first by the ancient Incas, then by the Spanish. They fought as ...

SANTIAGO DE CHILESANTIAGO DE CHILE — Una violenta noche se vivió en en el sur de Chile la madrugada del domingo, cuando la policía desalojó a indígenas mapuche de edificios que habían ocupado como ...

The Mapuche people are among the poorest in Chile. 3 According to an official socioeconomic survey, 32 percent of Chile’s indigenous population lives in poverty compared to 20 percent of the ...

TEMUCO, Chile (AP) — When Pope Francis visits the de facto capital of Chile’s Mapuche people, he will be inserting himself into one of Latin America’s longest-running conflicts involving indigenous ...

TEMUCO, Chile (AP) - When Pope Francis visits the de facto capital of Chile's Mapuche people, he will be inserting himself into one of Latin America's longest-running conflicts involving indigenous ...

In this Jan. 8, 2018 photo, a truck filled with harvested heads of lettuce, drives past the Maquehue Air Base in Temuco, Chile. Protests are expected in Temuco, including outside the air base where ...

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