Rapanui: Chile’s Peaceable Kingdom Image Challenged

Rapanui: Chile’s Peaceable Kingdom Image Challenged COHA Research Associates Joss Douglas and Samantha Nadler   On the tiny, legendary Pacific speck of land known as Easter Island, located 2,000 miles from the Chilean coastline, the ongoing non-violent protests being staged by the Hito family at the Hotel Hanga Roa came to a climax on Sunday February 6, 2011. Fifty armed members of the Chilean national police force (los Carabineros) mounted an illegal raid on the hotel and forcefully...

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