Approaching One Year: The Unsolved Disappearance of Mapuche Defender Julia Chuñil Shines Light on Global Crisis for Land Rights Activists
Approaching One Year: The Unsolved Disappearance of Mapuche Defender Julia Chuñil Shines Light on Global Crisis for Land Rights Activists As the one-year anniversary of Julia Chuñil’s disappearance approaches, the fate of the 72-year-old Mapuche land defender remains a haunting mystery, underscoring the perilous reality faced by Indigenous activists worldwide. Chuñil vanished last November while searching for livestock near her home in Chile’s ancient Valdivian forest, a territory her community claims as ancestral land. Her case, still unresolved, is a…