Most of the media focus in Chile is on the political wheeling and dealing surrounding President-elect Michelle Bachelet’s future cabinet and the myriad meetings to forge firm ties between her political team and deputies and senators in the Nueva Mayoría to drive her planned reform agenda through congress. Meanwhile, an issue which has received comparatively little media coverage, and still less attention in the policy discussions of Bachelet’s incoming government, is the mounting unrest in Araucanía, the ancestral homeland of the Mapuche in southern Chile. This is surprising because in 2008 Bachelet’s presidency (2006-2010) was rocked by Mapuche protests which took on the characteristics of an Intifada with marches, hunger strikes, fires and road blocks occurring daily.End of preview - This article contains approximately 640 words.
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