SANTIAGO – A Chilean Criminal Court Wednesday announced the acquittal of the 11 Mapuche people held over an arson attack that led to the death of an elderly couple in 2013. The presiding judge, Jose […]
BUENOS AIRES – The body recovered from a river bed in southern Argentina is that of a missing activist who disappeared two months ago during a police operation, his brother confirmed on Friday. Santiago Maldonado, […]
Isabel Cocker/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – A march through Chilean capital in support of Indigenous Peoples’ Day was broke up Monday by riot police, despite having official government permission to hold the rally. The […]
MEXICO CITY – An indigenous woman has registered to run as an independent candidate in next year’s presidential election in Mexico. María de Jesús Patricio Martínez also known as Marichuy, is a Mexican Nahua indigenous, […]
LIMA – A crude oil pipeline operated by Peru’s state owned oil company Petroperu has became fully operational following repairs on a series of ruptures that had partially shuttered it for more than a year. […]
BRASILIA – The Brazilian government has revoked a controversial decree that would have opened up a vast reserve in the Amazon to commercial mining. The area, covering 46,000 sq km, straddles the northern states of […]
LIMA – Last week, villagers in the Peru Amazon shut down 50 oil wells in protest against the negotiations of a new oil field development contract between Lima and Canadian Frontera Energy Group. The Amazon […]
Isabel Cocker/The Santiago Times Staff This Monday, Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet sent a law to Congress which could see incitation of violence becoming a crime punishable by up to 540 days in prison. The law […]
SANTIAGO – Police in southern Chile have arrested half a dozen indigenous Mapuche people suspected of carrying out an arson attack in Los Rios region, which left 29 logging trucks burned on Monday morning. The […]
SANTIAGO – Eighteen semi trucks were found destroyed by fire in a parking lot in the southern Chilean city of Temuco on Saturday, in what is believed to be an arson attack. The trucks were […]
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