Tag: Temuco

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 20:38 UTC

  Convicted Mapuche leader granted parole in Chile

  

  A Chilean court from Temuco Friday granted parole to Mapuche leader Facundo Jones-Huala, who was serving a prison sentence for the burning of a house and also for possessing firearms.

• Tuesday, August 24th 2021 - 09:27 UTC

  Chile's Mapuches interrupt air traffic at Temuco airport and destroy forestry machinery

  

  Growing unrest in Chile's Araucanía region, where the aboriginal communities mainly Mapuches are demanding the government honours treaties dating back to the Spanish conquest and later when Chile emerged as an independent country.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Chile's prosecutors reopen a bungled investigation into the death of a US teacher in Temuco

  

  Chile's prosecutors' office announced it would reopen a bungled investigation into the death of American teaching assistant Erica Faith Hagan, who was beaten to death in a college dormitory in southern Chile in 2014. The prosecutor's office said in a statement late on Friday that it had made the decision following a special request by the victim's mother Regina O'Neal.