The Settlers Is Felipe Gálvez Haberle s Decolonial Western frieze.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from frieze.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Settlers” (“Los colonos”), a revisionist western that questions the tropes of this quintessentially American genre and in turn shines a light on a hidden genocide, premieres in Los Angeles on Friday. It is Felipe Gálvez Haberle's directorial debut.
A forest fire that has been spreading for weeks in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego is threatening the ancestral land of an Indigenous group and destroying some of the world’s highest concentration of peatlands. The fires, which started in mid-January, have burned approximately 1,250 hectares (nearly 3,100 acres) of forest, peatland and grassland in the municipality […]
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On Tuesday (15 December), the House of Representatives and the Senate in Chile approved a bill that ensures Indigenous groups will participate in the upcoming Constitutional Assembly. Of 155 seats on the assembly which in April will begin the process of rewriting the constitution for ratification by referendum 17 will be reserved for Indigenous peoples.
Nationwide social uprisings in October 2019 have transformed the political landscape in Chile, offering glimmers of hope for those who have long been pushing for much-need constitutional change. The protests denounced growing inequality, environmental degradation, gender-based violence, and elite impunity. These popular movements forced the government’s hand and, on 15 November 2019, the “Agreement for Social Peace and the New Constitution” was signed by representatives from a total of ten government and opposition parties.