Security & Strategic Review - December 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)

The government of President Sebastián Piñera has come in for a drubbing from the Instituto Nacional de Derechos Humanos (INDH), an official body created two years ago to monitor the authorities’ performance in the area of human rights. Prominent among its criticisms, as last year, is police violence. The problems it highlights are still continuing, particularly in the Mapuche heartland in the south.