Photos by George Nelson and Cat Allen On October 12, the New World celebrates Columbus Day, but this Sunday, Chile’s special police were too busy having street fights with thugs to party. The country’s indigenous Mapuche people had stormed into Santiago for a demonstration and all hell broke loose. Indigenous rights supporters came to Santiago riding a wave of fury after the murder of a Mapuche activist called José Mauricio Quintriqueo Huaiquimil, on October 1. They surged up from the south of the country to demand the return of ancestral lands stolen by the young Republic of Chile over...
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