Kelly Bauer’s book documents how post-dictatorship governments in Chile have responded inconsistently to Mapuche claims, often favoring political and economic elites.
El libro de Kelly Bauer documenta como los gobiernos chilenos responden a las reclamaciones Mapuche de forma inconsistente, favoreciendo en muchos casos a las élites económicas y políticas.
After vowing to do things differently, the Boric administration has invoked a familiar playbook in Mapuche territory. The difficult of breaking with the status quo speaks to the entrenched power of the Right.
Pablo Arturo Mansilla Quiñones y Miguel Melin Pehuen
El conflicto mapuche en Argentina y Chile contesta concepciones de la frontera promulgadas por el estado-nación. No es sólo una disputa por el control material de la tierra, sino que también una lucha por el sentido y el uso del territorio.
As Chile’s president-elect Sebastian Piñera promises to perfect its anti-terrorist laws, repression against the Mapuche people seems likely to increase during his second presidential term.
Argentina's nationalization of YPF took a strange turn this year when the government signed a deal with Chevron to boost gas extraction through fracking. President Fernández and her team say this will lead the country to "energy sovereignty." But what does energy sovereignty mean and what does fracking mean for popular democracy and real economic transformation?
