Chile's Bachelet To Distribute More Land To Mapuches.

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Between now and the end of her term in March, Chile's President Michelle Bachelet will distribute 33,000 hectares (81,500 acres) of land among Mapuche Indian communities in Chile’s conflictive southern region of Araucania.Since 1999, 650,000 hectares of land, most of it state-owned, have been returned to the Mapuches.
Once the current initiative is complete, he said, another 150,000 and 170,000 hectares will be needed to fulfill the state’s obligation to the 650,000-strong Mapuche nation, Chile’s largest indigenous group.