Security & Strategic Review February 2008 (ISSN 1741-4202)

CHILE | Bachelet ups response to Mapuche unrest. On 28 January, President Michelle Bachelet reacted to continuing Mapuche unrest [SSR-08-01] by appointing former undersecretary Rodrigo Egaña as presidential commissioner for indigenous affairs, charged with reestablishing a formal dialogue with the 'originary peoples'. Egaña is to act in conjunction with the inter-ministerial council for indigenous affairs which she had created earlier, headed by new interior minister Edmundo Pérez Yoma. The appointment coincided with the news that imprisoned Mapuche activist Patricia Troncoso had been persuaded to abandon her 110-day hunger strike after the government had agreed to relax the terms of imprisonment for her and other Mapuche convicts.

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