Indigenous land conflicts finally garner attention in Argentina
(WorldNews Argentina)

The territorial claims of hundreds of indigenous communities, which extend throughout most of Argentina`s vast geography, burst onto the public agenda of a country built by and for descendants of European colonizers and immigrants, accustomed to looking at native people as outsiders. It all started with the disappearance of Santiago Maldonado, a 28-year-old artisan who on Aug. 1 participated in a protest in the southern Patagonian province of Chubut by Mapuche indigenous people, who were violently evicted by security forces. ......