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Brazil & Southern Cone - October 2017 (ISSN 1741-4431)

Mapuche issue dominates final stages of electoral contest

With weeks to go until Chile’s 19 November general election, the final stages of the electoral contest have been overshadowed by renewed focus on the long-running conflict involving the indigenous Mapuche and the response to it by the leftist Nueva Mayoría coalition government led by President Michelle Bachelet. This stems from various factors: mounting health concerns regarding four Mapuche activists, who have been imprisoned since June 2016 under the country’s anti-terrorism legislation and staged a hunger strike for over 100 days; and the authorities’ response to new arson attacks linked to the Mapuche conflict in Southern Chile in recent weeks.

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