Activists link the disappearance of land defender Julia Chuñil to the state’s militarization of the region and its deep ties ...

Environment officials charged the miner with over- pumping lithium-rich brine from the salt flat. Indigenous groups in Chile´s lithium-rich Atacama salt flat, fresh off a resounding legal victory ...

The traditional Curanto en Hoyo is a culinary experience unique to Chiloe Island in southern Chile. A giant pit is filled ...

Chile's Constituent Assembly Wednesday ... Isabel Godoy, of the Colla people, said “it has not been easy for the indigenous peoples. Here all the peoples have been made invisible, our ...

On a warm morning, a few dozen people congregate in a park in Santiago, Chile, to eat together and play palín. The players, who are all ages, are Indigenous Mapuche; palín is like the Mapuche ...

A near 20 year struggle for land rights and conservation of their rare Araucaria forests for an indigenous Pehuenche community of the Andes range has been rewarded with a grant of title to 22,000 ...

Before the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th Century, the Mapuche inhabited a vast swathe of land in southern Chile Renowned ... between the indigenous Mapuche people and the state was not ...

Ariel Cohen is a D.C.-based contributor who covers energy and security Aerial view of the Kolla indigenous community ... Bolivia and Chile in quantities larger than anywhere else in the world.

Chile offers travelers a remarkable cultural ... showcasing the syncretism between Spanish colonizers and indigenous Huilliche people during the 16th century. These historic churches tell stories ...