In the aftermath of the inspiring popular uprising in Argentina at the end of 2001 and the battles that blocked neoliberalism in Bolivia from 2003-2005, the Left came to power in governments across ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – The U.N. special investigator on human rights and counter-terrorism is asking Chile to stop using an anti-terrorism law against the Mapuche Indians. Ben Emmerson says the situation ...

VILCUN, Chile – The arson deaths of an elderly couple in their ranch home on land claimed by Mapuche Indians have cast a cold light on the indigenous group's struggle in southern Chile's Araucania ...

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Friday accepted the resignation of the minister for women, genders and diversity after she opposed the eviction of a group of indigenous Mapuche women from ...

From the heart of the ancestral lands of the Mapuche, the original inhabitants of the Araucanía region in southern Chile, Pope Francis today warned against “two forms of destructive violence” and ...

Mapuche Indians in the southern Argentine region of Patagonia, who in 2002 took part in a land dispute against the Italian textile group Benetton, have returned to occupy land belonging to the firm, ...

Santiago, Mar 13 (EFE).Santiago, Mar 13 (EFE). — The government on Thursday apologized in the name of the Chilean state to the indigenous Mapuche tribe “for taking their lands” and said it has a ...

“What in heaven’s name is the reason that the sun never sets on the empire of the dandelion?” historian Alfred Crosby wrote in the 1986 book Ecological Imperialism. “Perhaps the success of European ...

AMONGST the salubrious surroundings of Dublin’s Shelbourne hotel late last year, I got to taste a rather good Chilean Pinot ...