Chile: Mapuche Teens Takeover Town To End “Police Brutality”

Chile: Mapuche Teens Takeover Town To End “Police Brutality” Katie Manning, 2011   A decades-old is heating up as Chilean cities spend their winter under a blanket of protests. Forty teenagers staged a toma, or takeover, in Ercilla.   A decades-old debate over a 150-year-old conflict is heating up as Chilean cities spend their winter under a blanket of protests. Forty teenagers, part of 700,000 Mapuche Indians out of 17 million people in Chile, staged a toma, or takeover, in Ercilla. The...

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