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Montevideo, April 24th 2024 - 04:08 UTC

Tag: Elisa Loncon

  • Monday, July 5th 2021 - 07:22 UTC

    Chile's Constitutional Convention appoints Mapuche woman to chair it

    Loncón was a participant in the design of the Wenufoye flag of the Mapuche people, in 1992

    Mapuche leader Elisa Loncón, a Ph.D. in humanities holder from the Dutch University of Leiden, has been chosen Sunday to preside over the Constituent Convention which will re-write Chile's new Fundamental Law to replace the current text from 1980 passed under the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.