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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 03 August 2018

CHILE: Piñera falls short on key pledge

Chile’s Interior & Public Security Minister Andrés Chadwick was last week forced to recognise an increase in “violent actions” in the impoverished southern La Araucanía region, long the site of unrest stemming from indigenous Mapuche claims to ancestral land. Chadwick’s admission comes amid other doubts cast on progress made by the right-of-centre Chile Vamos coalition government led by President Sebastián Piñera with regard to a key pledge – restoring “peace to the Araucanía”.

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