I realized I've talked about the Mapuche hunger strike a lot in my blog without perhaps giving the best context, socially and historically. This article does a reasonably good job, and it's in English!
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53007
And the Human Rights Watch take, which looks more at legacies from the years of military dictatorship:
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/09/27/chile-amend-anti-terrorism-law-and-military-jurisdiction
I also realized that I've been bandying the phrase "dictatorship" around a lot. By this, I'm referring to the period of military rule by Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990.
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