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Chilean police have repressed on an indigenous demonstration in Santiago, arresting at least seventeen people during protests demanding territorial autonomy and cultural recognition. teleSUR
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00:00And now we go to Chile, where police have repressed an indigenous demonstration in Santiago,
00:06arresting at least 17 people during protests, demanding territorial autonomy and cultural recognition.
00:12Security forces deployed water canyons and tear gas against native communities and social organizations,
00:19marching on Indigenous Resistance Day.
00:22Demonstrators called for an immediate end to the militarization of ancestral lands,
00:26the release of Mapusha political prisoners, and an end to state repression.
00:32Community leaders also denounced President José Antonio Caz's administration,
00:37framing its policies as an aggressive threat to the environmental and historical rights of Chile's indigenous peoples.

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