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A Mapuche Reflective Opinion On The Chilean Earthquake And Tsunami In Wallmapu
(CHILE) -- Faced with destruction, in particular Lafkenche Mapuche communities and possible emergency humanitarian aid. The alarming information, but predictable, arising from the Territorial Identity Lafkenche indicate they are "hundreds of dead and missing" affecting the Mapuche-Lafkenche Wallmapu three regions.
Peru withdraws some claims in lawsuit against Yale
(CONNECTICUT) -- Peru has voluntarily agreed to withdraw fraud and conspiracy allegations it made against Yale University in a civil lawsuit seeking the return of Inca artifacts removed from the famed Machu Picchu citadel nearly a century ago.
Aboriginal infant mortality rate falls
(AUSTRALIA) -- Australia's Aboriginal infant mortality rate is falling and is on track to be equal with the non-indigenous rate by 2018, a new report shows.
Police racism in the dock as new inquest opens into Aboriginal man's death
(AUSTRALIA) -- Five years after a 36-year-old died in custody in a former penal settlement in Queensland, his family hope to get justice
Mexican author Carlos Montemayor dies at 62
(MEXICO) -- Mexican author and guerrilla movement scholar Carlos Montemayor died Sunday, his publisher said. He was 62. A historian and linguist whose academic work centered on indigenous culture and rebels, Montemayor was sympathetic to the armed Zapatista uprising in 1994 in the southern state of Chiapas.
Tsunami sweeps away entire towns on Chilean coast
(CHILE) -- When the shaking stopped, Marioli Gatica and her extended family huddled in a circle on the floor of their seaside wooden home in this gritty port town, listening to the radio by a lantern’s light.
Real-life Avatar battle looming / Church of England and others sell company stock over ethical concerns
(INDIA) -- As Hollywood rolls out the red carpet for the Oscars, a world away in remote eastern India, activists say the story of the blockbuster sci-fifilm Avatar -- nominated for nine awards -- is being played out.
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