SALAR DE ATACAMA, Chile (Reuters) - Chile's Indigenous communities in the lithium-rich Atacama Desert are in talks with two of the nation's biggest miners to gain more influence over plans to increase ...

Salmon farming is big business in Chile, and the U.S. is one of its largest markets. Yet the fish are not native, and fishermen say salmon are... Chile's Indigenous fishermen say the salmon industry ...

Pope Francis is expected to defend persecuted indigenous people during a trip to Chile and Peru next week that also aims to boost a flagging local Catholic church hit by child sex scandals. The ...

PEDRO CAYUQUEO, Chile (AP) — The Mapuches, Chile’s biggest Indigenous group, have endured centuries of battle. They resisted conquest first by the ancient Incas, then by the Spanish. They fought as ...

A sacred ceremony in the cold waters of the Pilmaiquen River marked the conclusion of We Tripantü, one of the most important holidays for indigenous communities in southern Chile. The Associated Press ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — With an era-defining vote for a new constitution fast approaching, issues related to racial diversity have led to outbreaks of violence and political strikes up and down Chile. Like ...

With songs like “We’ll Beat the State,” Chilean rappers Wechekeche Ni Trawun are on a mission to support the Mapuche indigenous people’s fight for justice and land rights. Before the Spanish arrived ...

One of Chile's indigenous peoples is working to revive their primary language, which was declared extinct decades ago. In Chile, a once-extinct language is coming back to life SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A ...

PUERTO NATALES, Chile — Out beyond Isla Focus, a bare island in the fjords an hour off the coast of Puerto Natales, southern Chile, the waves pick up and the Calipso rocks alarmingly from side to side ...

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