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Unions demand emergency assistance, higher wages as prolonged pandemic leaves people with nothing to eat.
Lucia Newman explores a rapidly escalating conflict and talks to the elusive leader of the main armed Indigenous group.
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As Indigenous Mapuche conflict escalates, some hope the writing of a new constitution could lay the groundwork for reconciliation and peace in the trouble-torn region of southern Chile.
Younger Mapuche are organising and some are taking up arms to expel people they view as foreign invaders.
On this anniversary, many hope that a new constitution will replace the one written during the dictatorship.
A shocking 85 percent of Ecuadorans are now either unemployed or in precarious jobs.
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Coronavirus outbreak in Mexico has not stopped a group of lucha libre wrestlers from wanting to get back into the ring.
Many without the means to pay for housing have had to resort to land takeovers, setting up informal camps and building their own shacks.