Mapuches: The Politics of Exclusion in Chile
Justin Vogler is a correspondent for Upside Down World and lives in Chile. He has studied the history of his region, and knows the economic plight and political marginalization of Chile's oldest people: the Mapuches."As four Mapuche activists imprisoned under draconian anti-terrorist laws spend 70 days on a hunger strike, the troubled relationship between the Chilean state and "the oldest of Chileans" is rockier than ever", writes Vogler, in his compelling article.
"Throughout the twentieth century Santiago encouraged "colonization" of the Araucania region by offering free land to European immigrants with the result that the Mapuche territory shrunk, from 10 million hectares in 1883, to under 500,000 today. Indeed, most of the original Mapuche State is now owned by logging companies of which one, the Matte group, possesses twice as much land as all the Mapuche communities combined."
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"Like their economic plight, the political marginalization of Chile’s indigenous people is acute. The Chilean constitution doesn’t recognize them and, unlike other Latin American states, Chile has not ratified the International Labor Organization’s International indigenous people’s rights convention (C169 1989)".
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Read Justin Vogler's full article here. (Toward Freedom)
Tags for this entry: Mapuche, Indigenous Peoples, Chile.
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