Tag: Francisco Huenchumilla

• Friday, March 14th 2014 - 08:18 UTC

  The Chilean state apologizes to the indigenous Mapuches 'for taking their lands'

  

  The government of President Michelle Bachelet on Thursday apologized in the name of the Chilean state to the indigenous Mapuche tribe “for taking their lands” and said it has a pending debt in terms of public policies that will allow the La Araucania region, where 600,000 of the Indians live, to emerge from poverty.