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Weekly Report - 7 February 2013 (WR-13-05)
CHILE: Some treaties are more binding than others
“Treaties, when they are signed, are there to be honoured.” This was the blunt response which President Sebastián Piñera recently gave to his Bolivian peer Evo Morales after he used an international forum to make his habitual claim to a slice of Pacific coastline. Chile’s political establishment speaks with one voice on this issue and takes the same line with Peru, but two Chilean historians are now fighting fire with fire on behalf of the country’s Mapuche. In late January they presented the government with a document which, inter alia, calls on it to abide by the terms of the 1825 Treaty of Tapihue with the Mapuche.
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