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INDIGENOUS Mapuche campaigners and striking lorry drivers clashed in front of Chile’s presidential palace on Thursday during rival protests.
Police used water cannon to break up the two groups of demonstrators outside La Moneda palace and a central square in the capital Santiago.
The convoy, organised by the National Cargo Transport Confederation (CNTC), had come hundreds of miles from the south-central Araucania region, towing burnt-out vehicles they said had been torched by Mapuches angry at logging on their ancestral land.
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Communist Party presidential candidate JEANNETTE JARA challenges the Chilean left to stop talking only among comrades and reach out to angry voters abandoned by politics in the race against the far right this November