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Security & Strategic Review - January 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)
CHILE: Mapuche militants blamed for huge forest fires
The government of President Sebastián Piñera has rushed to blame a radical Mapuche organisation for having started forest fires that swept through three regions with large Mapuche populations, affecting the estates of one of the country’s largest logging firms. The militants have denied this but claimed responsibility for one attack, while a string of others, plus riots in Santiago, went unclaimed. The government has announced that it will invoke the antiterrorist law against the arsonists and the rioters.
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