SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- A United Nations investigator on Tuesday urged Chile's government to stop using an anti-terrorism law against Mapuche Indians who are fighting to recover their ancestral land.

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 ...

“We are here to stay … and I will only leave when I’m dead… My wife is buried in Mapuche land and I will be buried too.” The dispute started in 2002, when a Mapuche family was accused of settling ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – A Mapuche indigenous leader was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Friday for the arson murders of an elderly couple who died defending their property from hooded trespassers.

On February 11, 2025, as more than 50,000 hectares of forests burned in Patagonia in the heat of the Argentine summer, the government of the southern province of Chubut, led by Ignacio Agustín Torres, ...

ERCILLA, Chile — The Mapuche warriors of southern Chile were so fierce, they conquered the conquistadors, driving out the Spanish invaders in the 1600s. Today they are at war again, taking back ...

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 ...

When Spanish colonists arrived in Chile in 1541, they met fierce resistance from the native Mapuche people. They were never able to conquer them, and after the War of Independence from Spain, neither ...

Life loiters at a slow pace in the town of Ercilla, a seven-hour bus journey south of the Chilean capital, Santiago. Jaime Huenchullan, 35, lives in a wooden shack on a plot of land outside the rural ...

Mapuche Indians hold a banner during a rally in Angol town, near Temuco city south of Santiago, October 7, 2012. The rally was held in support of Daniel Levinao and Paulino Levipan, two indigenous ...

In southern Chile, a long-running conflict pitting the indigenous Mapuche people against security forces has taken a radical turn. Arson attacks, threats and armed clashes have multiplied in recent ...