Chilean history

Since then, de Tounens has been seen as a bizarre footnote in Chilean history, but that version of events is now being challenged by Mapuche authors. “Chile's official historiography caricatures de Tounens as a madman, but he was anything but,” says Pedro Cayuqueo, author of The Secret Mapuche ...

The oppression of the Mapuche has been a constant reality in Chilean history. The Mapuche suffered massacres at the hands of Spanish colonisers. When Chile declared its independence in 1810, the nascent Chilean state expelled the Mapuche from their ancestral territory. During the “Pacification of ...

But with information on events in Chile and elsewhere being passed through convoluted networks of exiles and supporters, it was often second or third hand by the time it reached his family, making it hard to distinguish fact from fiction. “Because this story related directly to the Hawker Hunters, which was ...

The oppression of the Mapuche has been a constant reality in Chilean history. The Mapuche suffered massacres at the hands of Spanish colonizers, and when Chile declared its independence, the nascent Chilean state expelled the Mapuche from their ancestral territory. During the “Pacification of ...

The generation I belong to started making films around ten years ago and we were coming from a moment in Chilean history when cinema had disappeared. During the dictatorship cinema almost died, there were exceptions, but it was very hard to make movies. Everything had been dismantled, the culture ...

The oppression of the Mapuche has been a constant reality in Chilean history. The Mapuche suffered massacres at the hands of Spanish colonizers, and when Chile declared its independence, the nascent Chilean state expelled the Mapuche from their ancestral territory. During the “Pacification of ...

United face Sevilla in the first leg of their last-16 tie later this month and Sanchez is eligible to help his new club in Europe. And Mourinho believes the Chilean's history of playing in the competition for Barcelona sets him apart from Lukaku, Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial and Jesse Lingard. 'Alexis has a ...

UFC officials are looking to hold events in Chile and Argentina by the first quarter of 2018. The UFC is looking to break into more markets in South America by this time next year. According to a report by LaAficion, promotion officials are looking to hold events in both Chile and Argentina, specifically ...

Their arrests have rekindled uneasy memories of a violent era in Chilean history and cast a revealing spotlight on the booming kidnapping-for-profit trade in Mexico. The latest act in the pair's long-running drama played out, improbably, in France. On Feb. 15, French police responding to murder and kidnap ...

As the Pinochet regime was ending following a referendum in 1988, government information was destroyed, wiping out a whole period of Chilean history. So when one of Nae Pasaran's interviewees, Humberto Arenas, an Allende-sympathising mechanic in the Chilean Air Force until the coup, says a ...