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Article: CHILE: MAPUCHE PROTEST AGAINST DAM CONTINUES.
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- NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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On March 19, government officials in Chile's southcentral Bio Bio province asked an Appeals Court to apply the Anti-terrorist Law to any Mapuches who attack Endesa Chile, a subsidiary of Endesa Espana, the company building a controversial dam on the Bio Bio river.
Since the decision to build the dam (Central Hidroelectrica Ralco), which the government says is needed to satisfy growing energy demands, confrontations between the indigenous communities and the carabineros (militarized police) in the Bio Bio and Araucania regions of Chile have left a trail of dead, wounded, and detained and have brought international attention to the plight of the Mapuche people. ...
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Article: Chile: Cementos Bio Bio mergers subsidiaries.
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...The Cementos Bio Bio holding has recently started restructuring ... which will be merged further to Cementos Bio Bio SAIC, which operates in VIII Region ... will be consolidated next year. Cementos Bio Bio's strategy of operating through a single ...
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