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Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2017 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Bachelet seeks to recover initiative ahead of November vote
An end to “500 years of conflict”. This was the somewhat bold claim made by Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet in relation to a new comprehensive plan for the country’s southern Araucanía area – the site of a long-running conflict stemming from historical claims to ancestral lands by the indigenous Mapuche. President Bachelet’s plan, which she unveiled during her fourth and final state-of-the-nation address delivered on 1 June, is one of various efforts by her unpopular leftist Nueva Mayoria coalition government to recover the initiative ahead of the November general elections.
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