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Compared to high-profile groups like the Quechua of Peru and the Yanomami of the Amazon rain forest, Chile's Mapuche are a relatively obscure indigenous cohort in South America. But that has changed dramatically in recent months as a growing number of armed and masked Mapuche activists, pursuing a centuries-old claim to land they say was taken from them by the Spaniards and then the Chilean government, have engaged in a wave of arson attacks. Their assaults - torching forests, hijacking forestry trucks, seizing rural ranches - have created Chile's worst security crisis in decades. (See a story about...
Bolivian President Evo Morales isn't South America's first indigenous head of state - that honor belongs to Alejandro Toledo, a Quechua Indian who was President of Peru from 2001 to 2006 - but he's certainly the first to capture the imagination of the world outside South America. Morales, first elected in 2005, was the continent's Barack Obama before there was Obama. He is an Aymara Indian and former coca-growers union leader who won the presidential palace while still in his 40s, just decades after a time when Bolivians of his class and skin color weren't even...
...There are differences of language and nationality. A Latino can speak Spanish or Portuguese or Quechua,” said the president of Fuerza Latina, Juan Sebastian Arias ’09, before a crowd eating food from all around the region. “This month is about sharing this diversity and getting to know [our] similarities...
...Indian people of Bolivia are not rich. They do not live in the moneyed neighborhoods of La Paz. They are subsistence farmers and coca growers and miners. They are the present and they are the protesters. For Quechua and the Aymara people, the natives of Bolivia, their identity is bound tightly in race or non-race (non-whiteness...
...during two decades of rebel and state-sponsored violence, almost twice the previous estimates. The commission blamed the Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path for more than half of the killings carried out between 1980 and 2000, and government troops for much of the rest. Most of the victims were Quechua-speaking peasants. Nuclear Traces IRAN The U.N.'s nuclear weapons watchdog confirmed that inspectors found particles of highly enriched uranium at a nuclear power plant south of Tehran. Iran claimed the weapons-grade samples originated from equipment imported onto the Natanz site, and says it will discuss letting...