“We have failed as a country and it is for this reason that today in my capacity as president I want to solemnly and humbly apologise to the Mapuche people for the mistakes and atrocities that the state has committed or tolerated in our relationship with them,” President Michelle Bachelet said on 23 June while presenting a plan for the southern region of Araucanía. There has been no more ambitious plan to resolve the Chilean state’s deep-rooted dispute with the Mapuche but it comes at the tail end of Bachelet’s term in office and with opinion polls suggesting that former president Sebastián Piñera (2010-2014) of the right-wing opposition coalition Chile Vamos is the favourite to win November’s presidential elections the plan might not survive the change of government.End of preview - This article contains approximately 708 words.
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