Chile: Mapuche Defendants Acquitted of Unjust Terrorism Charges

Marking a victory for justice—and immediately following a Human Rights Watch report on the subject—seven members of the indigenous Mapuche community, and a non-Mapuche sympathizer, were acquitted on charges of terrorism in Chile. Since the 1990s, the Mapuche have clashed, sometimes violently, with forestry companies and landowners over land that they claim is theirs.