Friday, November 24, 2006
Mapuche v Chile
Pinochet's police state may be history in Chile, but for the 600,000 Mapuche Indians, their fight with Spanish-Chilean aristocrats continues. Repeated incarceration and torture of Chief Juana Calfunao and her family for protesting ethnocidal policies and road-building through their land has forced the Mapuche Nation to bring their plight before the UN.
