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Santiago de Chile, Jun 21 (Prensa Latina) The Commission for Peace and Understanding will be announced in an act at the presidential palace, seeking to achieve a solution to the historic conflict between the Chilean State and the Mapuche people.

The International Marxist Tendency has warned from day one that the government of Gabriel Boric has been marching to the drumbeat of the right. As early as the second round of the presidential elections in 2021, we denounced his populist use of immigration and public security issues in the campaign. With this repressive agenda, he aims to win the support of moderate or depoliticised layers of society and draw them away from the right. Ultimately, this merely adds grist to the mill of the far rig...

Mid-morning on 15 March, on her fourth day as interior minister under the newly inaugurated president Gabriel Boric, Izkia Siches was heading off with a convoy to meet Mapuche representatives in (...)

<p>Meanwhile, the Mapuche people demand the use of their customary rights, the ownership of ancestral lands threatened by extractive companies, and the recognition of their cultural identity.</p>