Javier Milei’s War on Indigenous Rights
As Argentina’s far right administration dismantles Indigenous protections, a wave of land evictions has destabilized life for Patagonia’s Mapuche community.
Untangling Elite Opposition to Indigenous Rights in Chile
Throughout Chile's constitutional process, right-wing rhetoric has rejected Indigenous recognitions and representation in defense of the status quo.
Reconocimiento colonial y acumulación militarizada en Wallmapu
Mientras el capitalismo y el colonialismo se reacomodan en Chile, las comunidades mapuche continuan la lucha para recuperar sus tierras ancestrales.
Negotating Autonomy: Mapuche Territorial Demands and Chilean Land Policy (Review)
Kelly Bauer's book documents how post-dictatorship governments in Chile have responded inconsistently to Mapuche claims, often favoring political and economic elites.
Reclamaciones Mapuche y la política de tierra chilena (reseña)
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.
Chile’s Identity Crisis: Mapuche Still Under Fire
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.
En Wallmapu, el colonialismo y el capitalismo se reacomodan
Mientras que las reivindicaciones territoriales mapuches amenazan las ganancias de las empresas forestales, el estado chileno y la industria forestal redoblan la represión.
Una Lucha Por Territorio, Una Lucha en Contra de la Frontera
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.
The Mapuche Nation Ups the Ante
On August 12, 2009, Mapuche activist Jaime Mendoza Collío, 24, was shot in the back by a police officer during a symbolic land occupation of the San Sebastian ranch outside the town of Angol, Chile. The killing - and the reactions to it - reflects a deepening crisis in the relations between the Chilean state and the 900,000-member Mapuche nation, the largest indigenous group in Chile.
Chile’s Mapuches Call for Regional Autonomy
Mapuche political leaders are taking the logic of land reform one step further and demanding regional autonomy for Wallmapu, as Mapudungun speakers call the Araucanía. In an appearance on the television talk show Tolerancia Cero, a spokesman for the Council of All Lands (Consejo de Todas las Tierras) Aucán Huilcamán, proposed the creation of an autonomous, self-governed area south of the Bío Bío river. Huilcamán cited the rights to political self-determination and regional autonomy granted by the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as the legal basis for the demand.
Chile’s Kelwo: Stitching Together a Better Future
The Kelwo Association of Chiloé, an organization of Mapuche residents of Chile's island-province, was formed in 2001 to bring to public attention one of the great social debts of Chilean democracy: the right to health and life of people in indigenous communities affected by HIV/AIDS.
A Hunger Striker Becomes Chile’s Conscience
On January 28, Patricia Troncoso, a prisoner hospitalized in the city of Chillán, in southern Chile, ended her hunger strike
