SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Mapuche Indians in Chile are trying to take global software giant Microsoft to court in a legal battle which raises the question of whether anyone can ever "own" the ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Nestled between high-rise buildings on a busy street in Chile’s modern capital is a straw hut that’s a sign of growing respect for the Andean country’s long-disdained indigenous ...

Though the government says it has purchased “land in conflict” for 1,561 families since 1994, for many of the 400,000 rural Mapuches, who view this region as historically theirs, government efforts ...

Microsoft has been accused of “intellectual piracy” over its launch in October of a Windows language pack in Mapudungun, a Mapuche language spoken by about 400,000 indigenous Chileans. The language ...

TEMUCO, Chile – When Pope Francis visits the de facto capital of Chile's Mapuche people this week, he'll be inserting himself into an extended and sometimes violent conflict involving indigenous ...

They resisted conquest first by the ancient Incas, then by the Spanish. They fought as the nascent Chilean state annexed ...

COLLIPULLI, Chile — Because eucalyptus trees are thirsty, Victor Ancalaf became a rebel. Growing like cabbages in neat rows planted by one of the largest forestry companies in South America, the trees ...

From the heart of the ancestral lands of the Mapuche, the original inhabitants of the Araucanía region in southern Chile, Pope Francis today warned against “two forms of destructive violence” and ...

As Chile recovers from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that fractured the country’s south-central region in late February, the administration of President Sebastian Piñera – who took office two weeks ...

Reporting from Santiago, Chile — Pope Francis will step into the middle of one of South America’s longest-running conflicts Wednesday when he visits the largely indigenous Araucania region of Chile.

The story of how Pascual Pichun became the first man to be convicted of terrorism in Chile. I'm in a car with a terrorist, if I'm to believe the Chilean courts. But am I? Branded a 'terrorist' aged 17 ...