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Brazil & Southern Cone - January 2013 (ISSN 1741-4431)
A rough start to Piñera’s final year
A flare-up of indigenous Mapuche unrest awaited Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera upon his return to work in January. With the Mapuche upping the stakes to include calls for self-governance, the issue threatens to become a major headache for the conservative ruling coalition ahead of the November 2013 general election.
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