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CHILE: Mapuche Detainees Say They Were Framed

CHILE: TEMUCO, Chile, Nov 20 (IPS) - "This lie has got to end," said a sobbing Luisa Marilef, a 55-year-old Mapuche woman who says her son's arrest and prosecution under Chile's anti-terrorism law was part of a set-up by the police and ...

From DANIELA ESTRADA, Inter Press Service,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: UNICEF,  Augusto Pinochet,  Michelle Bachelet

CHILE: Mapuche Voices from Prison

CHILE: CONCEPCIÓN, Chile, Nov 16 (IPS) - "If the government says let's sit down and try to reach a solution, we'll be there," Héctor Llaitul, a leader of the radical Mapuche organisation Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM), who is in prison ...

From DANIELA ESTRADA, Inter Press Service,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michelle Bachelet,  UNICEF,  Augusto Pinochet,  Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

LATIN AMERICA: Journalistic Prize for "Grey" Depictions of Poverty

LATIN AMERICA: SANTIAGO, Nov 5 (IPS) - The second "Latin America and the Millennium Development Goals" Journalism Prize, sponsored by the UNDP and IPS, was awarded Thursday in the Chilean capital in a ceremony addressed by the head of the ...

From DANIELA ESTRADA, Inter Press Service,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Helen Clark,  United Nations

CHILE: Women in Arms

CHILE: SANTIAGO, Nov 3 (IPS) - The official version of Chilean history renders womens political participation "invisible" and relegates them to a secondary or anecdotal role, says journalist Cherie Zalaquett, author of a new book, ...

From DANIELA ESTRADA, Inter Press Service,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Salvador Allende,  UNESCO,  Augusto Pinochet

CHILE: Teen Pregnancy, a Problem That Won’t Go Away

CHILE: SANTIAGO, Nov 2 (IPS) - Chile currently stands out for its spectacular progress in a number of health indicators, including maternal and child mortality and chronic malnutrition. But these successes obscure an acute social problem ...

From DANIELA ESTRADA, Inter Press Service,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Michelle Bachelet,  U.S. Congress

RIGHTS-CHILE: Stop Violence Against Indigenous Children - UNICEF

RIGHTS-CHILE: SANTIAGO, Oct 27 (IPS) - Reports of police violence against Mapuche children in the southern Chilean region of Araucanía prompted the country's UNICEF representative, Gary Stahl, to express the agency's deep concern at a ...

From DANIELA ESTRADA, Inter Press Service,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: UNICEF,  Michelle Bachelet,  Augusto Pinochet

CHILE: Fashion Finds Green Style

CHILE: SANTIAGO, Oct 26 (IPS/IFEJ) - Young Chilean designers are turning their creative energy to recycling, natural fibres and working with disadvantaged groups as they produce clothing and accessories - but it is an effort that is not ...

From DANIELA ESTRADA, Inter Press Service,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations

CHILE: Indigenous Protests on Several Fronts

CHILE: SANTIAGO, Oct 7 (IPS) - The tense relations between the Chilean government of Michelle Bachelet and the country's large indigenous minority are far from easing up. While the conflict between Mapuche Indians and the police in the ...

From DANIELA ESTRADA, Inter Press Service,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Michelle Bachelet,  United Nations

ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Authorities May Sue Geothermal Energy Firm

ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: SANTIAGO, Oct 1 (IPS) - The Council for the Defense of the State (CDE), the Chilean government's legal watchdog, is considering bringing a suit for environmental damages against an Italian-Chilean consortium carrying out ...

From DANIELA ESTRADA, Inter Press Service,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: ENEL,  United Nations

CHILE: Preserving the Kaweshkar Language – In the Nick of Time

CHILE: SANTIAGO, Sep 30 (IPS) - Sound files containing recordings of spoken Kaweshkar - a nearly extinct indigenous language of southern Chile have been put together thanks to the work of ethnolinguist Óscar Aguilera and anthropologist ...

From DANIELA ESTRADA, Inter Press Service,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Indigenous (musician)

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