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Articles by Carole Concha Bell

A view of the Villarrica volcano from the Huerquehue National Park in the Araucanía region of Chile / credit: Josefina Hepp

‘Only Way Out Is Emancipation’: Mapuche Ponder Future As Chile Rejects Constitution

Carole Concha Bell September 23, 2022 Carole Concha Bell

Chile’s population rejecting a proposed constitution on September 4 will hit hard one group: Indigenous people, who are socially and economically disadvantaged, thanks to generations of land dispossession and invisibility in Chile’s political landscape. Carole Concha Bell reports.

A Mapuche protest in Chile / credit: Jubileu Sul

West Complicit in Arming Chile to Violate Mapuche Rights

Carole Concha Bell December 20, 2021 Carole Concha Bell

Between former U.S.-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet’s terror laws being used to criminalize Mapuche elders and activists, the United States and the United Kingdom arming Chile’s security forces, and the failure of international agencies to treat the Mapuche conflict with urgency, the West appears complicit in the genocide of the Mapuche people.

Salvador Allende in a crowd / credit: Naul Ojeda via National Security Archives, George Washington University

Chileans Demand Answers on Australia’s Role in 1973 Coup

Carole Concha Bell September 23, 2021 Carole Concha Bell

A group representing Chilean exiles in Australia has written an open letter to Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne, expressing its dismay at revelations Australia may have collaborated with the United States in the events that led to the removal of democratically-elected Chilean socialist President Salvador Allende. 

Newly elected Chilean Constitutional Assembly President Elisa Loncón / credit: Instagram/Elisa.Loncon

First Indigenous Woman to Preside Over Chilean Constitutional Assembly Rocks Political Establishment

Carole Concha Bell July 16, 2021 Carole Concha Bell

In a stunning election that was centuries in the making, a 58-year-old Mapuche academic named Elisa Loncón took the helm of a strategic political body in Chile.

Chile’s feminists push to decriminalize abortion

Carole Concha Bell February 19, 2021 Carole Concha Bell

Abortion campaigners in Chile have been heartened by the recent legalization of abortion in neighboring Argentina and are currently presenting a bill for the decriminalization of abortion. But with a pro-life government and Senate inherited from the Pinochet regime (1973-90) any amendments to the existing law will be hard won.

Mapuche communities in Chile resist criminalization, encroachment

Carole Concha Bell June 2, 2020 Carole Concha Bell

The coronavirus pandemic increases concern for Mapuche prisoners, as the Chilean state responds with militarization.

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