By Patricia Nieto Mariño Santiago, Aug 9 (EFE).- Chile’s native peoples are divided into nearly a dozen ethnic groups and make up 13 percent of the population, but they have never been accounted for in any constitution over the nation’s more than 200-year history. That could change soon, however, if a first-ever charter granting them …
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By Patricia Nieto Mariño Santiago, Jun 29 (EFE).- Chile’s powerful mining sector has destroyed glaciers for decades, contaminated water supplies with heavy metals and spewed pollutants into the air in so-called “Sacrifice Zones,” but a draft constitution could usher in a new, more environmentally friendly reality for that industry. The new charter, which will be …
By Patricia Nieto Mariño Santiago, Jun 16 (EFE).- The murder of a police officer last week on the outskirts of Santiago, killed with a gunshot to the head, has revived the debate about gun ownership in Chile, the subject also being a hot-button issue in the United States after the latest mass killings that have …
By Luis Alejandro Amaya E. Americas Desk, Mar 22 (EFE).- With the war in Ukraine disrupting exports of wheat, the world looks to the agricultural powerhouses of South America’s Southern Cone as an alternative source of food, but the region’s farmers and ranchers are struggling under a drought that some fear could become permanent due …