Haelixa created a unique DNA marker for Codelco to apply to their 99.99% gold bars on-site. The bars are tested to verify their provenance using PCR testing.
After eight months in office, the country's progressive president began fulfilling a campaign promise to find a solution to the Mapuche Indigenous communities' historic claims, Tanya Wadhwa reports.
By Tanya Wadhwa
Peoples Dispatch
Chilean President Gabriel Boric on Nov. 11 announced the
A robust bill of rights was not enough to convince the country that the new Charter, which eliminated the Senate, heavily modified the judicial branch and declared Chile to be a plurinational nation, was better than the Constitution drafted under Gen. Pinochet's brutal regime.
In Chile, a recent move from the new government on reparation for victims of human rights violations committed during the 2019 uprising could trigger and expresses a radical shift of policy in dealing with human rights violations, and an opportunity to revisit the unfulfilled demands of survivors of the dictatorship, argues the author.
Mapuche violence is reaching unprecedented levels after the Arauco-Malleco Coordinating Committee (CAM) claimed responsibility Tuesday for an arson attack against a forestry site in the commune of Lumaco, in the Araucanía region, 700 kilometers south of Santiago.