In the aftermath of the inspiring popular uprising in Argentina at the end of 2001 and the battles that blocked neoliberalism in Bolivia from 2003-2005, the Left came to power in governments across ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – A Mapuche indigenous leader was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Friday for the arson murders of an elderly couple who died defending their property from hooded trespassers.

VILCUN, Chile – The arson deaths of an elderly couple in their ranch home on land claimed by Mapuche Indians have cast a cold light on the indigenous group's struggle in southern Chile's Araucania ...

From the heart of the ancestral lands of the Mapuche, the original inhabitants of the Araucanía region in southern Chile, Pope Francis today warned against “two forms of destructive violence” and ...

Mapuche Indians in the southern Argentine region of Patagonia, who in 2002 took part in a land dispute against the Italian textile group Benetton, have returned to occupy land belonging to the firm, ...

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Friday accepted the resignation of the minister for women, genders and diversity after she opposed the eviction of a group of indigenous Mapuche women from ...

“What in heaven’s name is the reason that the sun never sets on the empire of the dandelion?” historian Alfred Crosby wrote in the 1986 book Ecological Imperialism. “Perhaps the success of European ...

“The occupation and commercial exploitation of their ancestral land, with the adverse environmental consequences that go with intensive commercial land usage, is thus viewed by sections of the Mapuche ...

Santiago, Mar 13 (EFE).Santiago, Mar 13 (EFE). — The government on Thursday apologized in the name of the Chilean state to the indigenous Mapuche tribe “for taking their lands” and said it has a ...