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Chile: Mapuche Protest Militarization and Project to Build Airport

Categories: Latin America, Chile, Indigenous, Protest

On November 23, Mapuche protested against the militarization [1]of their communities and a project to build an airport south of Temuco [2], in southern Chile, in a territory they claim as their ancestral land. Montserrat Nicolas, from the blog Curvas Políticas, shares a video [3] [es] with speeches and testimonies by Mapuche leaders present in that protest.