Logging truck burnt in Arauco attack
SANTIAGO – A logging truck was attacked and burnt on Wednesday morning in Contulmo, in the Province of Arauco, in the Biobío Region. According to Soy Chile, the event was recorded on Route P60 at […]
SANTIAGO – A logging truck was attacked and burnt on Wednesday morning in Contulmo, in the Province of Arauco, in the Biobío Region. According to Soy Chile, the event was recorded on Route P60 at […]
SANTIAGO – The prosecutor of the High Complexity Crimes Unit of Temuco, Luis Arroyo, on Thursday filed a complaint against those found responsible, but specifically focused on the Directorate of Police Intelligence of Carabineros (Dipolcar), […]
SANTIAGO – Pope Francis urged Chile’s indigenous Mapuche people on Wednesday to shun violence, saying unity was the best weapon against “the deforestation of hope,” as they struggle to defend their culture and reclaim ancestral […]
SANTIAGO – Pope Francis’ trip to South America is supposed to be all about peace, unity and hope. But the pontiff could also be welcomed with protests, threats of violence and controversy over allegations of […]
Isabel Cocker / The Santiago Times Staff Just days before the presidential elections, reporter Isabel Cocker returns home, to the United Kingdom. Through her work for The Santiago Times she got to know Chile from […]
BUENOS AIRES – Police clashed with a group of Mapuche during an operation to clear lands seized by members of the indigenous community, and one young Mapuche was killed and two were injured, Argentina’s government […]
BUENOS AIRES – The Mapuche organizations from Chile and Argentina have announced the first joint march that will cross the common border in order to protest the militarization of Mapuche territories, and to demand the […]
SANTIAGO – The Vatican and the Chilean bishops have simultaneously presented the program for Pope Francis’ visit. The pope will arrive in Santiago on January 15. He will have an intense schedule on January 16. […]
SANTIAGO – Angry protestors burned a bus and scattered pamphlets in protest of an upcoming visit by Pope Francis to the Araucania region, which has long been a site of attempts by the Mapuche indigenous […]
SANTIAGO – A group of jailed Mapuche activists have resumed their hunger strike after being held without trial for almost 18 months as the Chilean government has “failed to fulfill its promise to free them”. […]
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