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Police clash with members of the indigenous Mapuche community in the central Chilean town of Temuco, south of capital Santiago, as protests from the community has intensified in recent weeks over logging and land rights. IMAGES
Carahue/Lleu-Lleu, Oct 14 (EFE).- The leader of the indigenous resistance Héctor Llaitul said in an interview with EFE Thursday that "paramilitarism is a reality that is present in the conflict" between his people and the Chilean State as well as the forestry companies installed on the lands that they consider ancestral. (Camera: JOSE CAVIEDES).SHOT LIST: AN EFE INTERVIEW WITH LEADER OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE HÉCTOR LLAITUL IN CARAHUE AND LLEU-LLEU, CHILE.SOUND BITES : HÉCTOR LLAITUL, FOUNDER OF THE COORDINADORA ARAUCO-MALLECO (CAM) (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: (Paramilitarism) has shown itself in recent times in the involvement between foresters and Mapuche communities, unfortunately. There is a kind of Mapuche paramilitarism that is at the service of foresters. And that reality is painful to say, but it exists.
Clashes erupt between supporters of Chile's Mapuche indigenous people and anti-riot police in the capital as a peaceful demonstration turns violent. IMAGES
A freight train was derailed after being attacked by a group of people in the Araucanía Region, in southern Chile, shaken for weeks by a series of attacks attributed to radical Mapuche groups. IMAGES
Thousands protest on Santiago's Italy Square a year after Mapuche activist Camilo Catrillanca was shot by police. IMAGES
Indigenous community members continue their week of protests against fuel price hikes, which have escalated into violent clashes and disrupted the country's oil output. IMAGES