Weekly Report - 31 August 2017 (WR-17-34)

At least 29 trucks used for transporting timber were destroyed in an arson attack in the early hours of 28 August in the Region of Los Ríos in the province of Araucanía in southern Chile. Responsibility for the attack was unclear, but it came in an area where radical Mapuche indigenous communities have been protesting for decades over the use of what they regard as their ancestral lands for commercial farming and logging. The incident has fanned controversy in the presidential election campaign.