Boric Outlines Proposed Solution to Mapuche Conflict

Boric outlines proposed solution to Mapuche conflict

Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font announced Thursday in a broadcast message a comprehensive plan to address the Mapuche conflict, based on recommendations from the Commission for Peace and Understanding. The key measures include:

President Gabriel Boric will hold a national chain to report on the report of the Presidential Commission for Peace and Understanding. According to presidential information, the statement of the President is scheduled for Thursday, at 9 p.m. The document issued from the instance was delivered to the Head of State on 6 May at a ceremony held in the Montt Varas Hall of the Palacio de La Moneda. The President undertook to study the text, including …

Chile draws road map for peace in Mapuche land conflict, but concerns remain

A special commission tasked with addressing land disputes and Indigenous rights in Chile delivered a historic final report to the president earlier this month, making a series of recommendations meant to overhaul state policies and calm violent clashes over land rights. The Presidential Commission for Peace and Understanding sent President Gabriel Boric a list of 21 policy recommendations for strengthening the rights of Indigenous Mapuche. Howev…

The new scheme, Boric said, would make it possible to "close the land issue definitively." The Chilean government also promotes a constitutional reform to recognize indigenous peoples.

Constitutional recognition of indigenous peoples, a new high-level indigenous affairs body in the State, a system to address the restitution of indigenous lands and consultation with the Mapuche people on the new institutionality among the initiatives to be implemented, as well as strengthening the programme to support victims of rural violence. Santiago, 5/2025.

Chilean President Gabriel Boric announced the creation of a new indigenous land system to address the long-standing conflict in the south of the country pitting the state, extractive companies, and indigenous communities against each other. "A country that respects diversity, recognizes its constituent peoples, and categorically rejects violence is a better country for all," Boric said in a nationally televised address from La Moneda in Santiago…