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...Spanish colonizers and the new Chilean republic to subjugate them. Many Mapuche leaders still argue the country should return their ancestral lands in regions like south central Chile; but they're also angry about vast tracts they say were illegally taken from them in Araucania, near the city of Temuco, for forestry operations. This year militants have set fire to tree farms, leaving huge swaths of eucalyptus and pine trees scorched - and prompting local ranchers to stock up on weapons and ammunition...
Trials of some political prisoners are under way. More than fifty Miristas (members of the now outlawed leftist revolutionary movement) in Temuco were recently sentenced to terms ranging from 61 days to 20 years for such acts as land seizures and truck hijackings during the Allende years. Trials of the Dawson Island prisoners are expected to begin later this month...
...CHILE Volunteer nurses will teach formally and on the wards, at hospitals in Valdivia and Tesmuca. Lab technicians will train co-workers in their field hospitals in Valdivia and Antofagesta. Community health educators will work in Valdivia and Temuco and in rural areas doing community development. Hospital administrators will train Chileans to administer new hosptials being built Therapists will teach the clinical practice segment of the OT school at the Rehabilitation Center of the Health Service...
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