Security Minister targets Facundo Jones Huala, the leader of the RAM indigenous group, over fires in Patagonia and vows to ...

Activists link the disappearance of land defender Julia Chuñil to the state’s militarization of the region and its deep ties ...

The conflict dates back to the nineties when Mapuches, the largest indigenous group of Chile started claiming land they consider ancestral and is currently managed by private farmers.

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

The Mapuches, Chile's largest indigenous group, claim the territories they inhabited for centuries before they were forcibly occupied by the Chilean State at the end of the 19th century in a proce ...

New report by Human Rights Watch criticises Argentina’s mistreatment of freedom of speech, gender equality and judicial ...

The region's cultural center, Puerto Varas, blends German heritage with Indigenous Mapuche traditions. Visitors can explore the Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Church, visit the Antonio Felmer Museum, or ...

an Indigenous Mapuche leader in Chile, all of whom refused to let government-supported industry and transnational corporations take their water and redirect it to mining, hydroelectric projects or ...

This intention echoes the recent "toponymic cleansing" initiative of Argentina's new president, Javier Milei, who removed the indigenous Mapuche name from Lake Acigami and gave it back the ...

Blair reports from the front line of the war between big business and the indigenous communities, all the while connecting ...

There’s a soulful power to the sounds drifting across the Andean highlands, where steep mountains and deep valleys have shaped centuries of musical heritage.

CHILE, Jan 17: Looking to put Chile’s sex abuse scandal behind him, Pope Francis dives Wednesday into another divisive issue roiling the South American nation: the plight of the indigenous Mapuche and ...