After four years of legal actions, a group of self-identified Mapuches was evicted from Argentina's Los Alerces National Park following instructions from Esquel's Federal Judge Guido Otranto. Chubut ...

Residents of the Argentine town of El Bolson Sunday confronted reasoning Mapuches on horseback and kept them from doing any further damage as authorities failed to provide an institutional response to ...

2001-10-14 04:00:00 PDT Cayun, Argentina-- At age 83, Filomena Cayun is missing several front teeth and needs the help of a long stick to hike the wooded Andean trails of Lanin National Park. But her ...

The Chilean authorities should carry out a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into the alleged unlawful use of force by police against members of the Mapuche indigenous community, Human ...

(Washington D.C.) - The recent sentencing of four Mapuche Indians and a supporter on terrorism charges is a grossly exaggerated response to unrest in southern Chile, Human Rights Watch and the ...

Small groups of Mapuche Indians have so rattled Chile by seizing forests, burning buses and attacking police to demand land and autonomy that the leftist government has turned to dictatorship-era ...

ERCILLA, Chile — The Mapuche warriors of southern Chile were so fierce, they conquered the conquistadors, driving out the Spanish invaders in the 1600s. Today they are at war again, taking back ...

Mapuche Indians in the southern Argentine region of Patagonia, who in 2002 took part in a land dispute against the Italian textile group Benetton, have returned to occupy land belonging to the firm, ...

HOW far can the clock be turned back? That is the question facing Chile's government in the Araucanía region, the homeland of the Mapuche Indians in the country's forested south. Under a law approved ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Mapuche Indians in Chile are trying to take global software giant Microsoft to court in a legal battle which raises the question of whether anyone can ever "own" the ...

Microsoft's going to court over an intellectual property language dispute, but I'm not talking about problems in C# or Visual C++. The Mapuche Indians in Chile are taking Microsoft to court because ...