Chile’s new constitution will give official recognition to the Indigenous peoples within its borders, making it the third plurinational country in South America, after Ecuador and Bolivia.
By Patricia Nieto Mariño Santiago, Aug 9 (EFE).- Chile’s native peoples are divided into nearly a dozen ethnic groups and make up 13 percent of the population, but they have never been accounted for in any constitution over the nation’s more than 200-year history. That could change soon, however, if a first-ever charter granting them …
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“The future of our country is at stake” The shaggy hair from his student protester days has been neatly trimmed, the beard clipped, the forearm tattoo of a Patagonian lighthouse hidden under a crisp white shirt and suit jacket. But as 35-year-old Gabriel Boric takes to the stage in Santiago, Chile, on the warm night of 19th December, having just been elected the […]