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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 13 December 2018

Mapuche murder undoes hard work for embattled Piñera

Historically, the Chilean state has endured a complex relationship with its indigenous communities. Since Sebastián Piñera reassumed the presidency in March this year, he has made a concerted effort to prescribe policy targeting the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island and the Mapuche in the unsettled southern region of La Araucanía. However, the murder of a Mapuche activist in November has reignited the issue of how Chile’s indigenous populations are treated, and the resultant swell of discontent threatens to close in on the president. The policy that his administration has formulated for both communities sheds light on the state’s modern relationship with Chile’s indigenous population.

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