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Chilean authorities have indicated that Mapuche activists may have started the fire that killed the firefighters.
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But even the pro-government Mapuche leaders invited to the ceremony were unimpressed by Mr Frei's generosity.
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These incidents have been publicised by Mapuche activists, equipped with mobile phones and media savvy.
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Local media said the suspect was a Mapuche Indian, but police have not given details of his identity.
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This campaign spurred the government to send German Quintana, the planning minister, to visit Mapuche communities, both in the countryside and in the cities.
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Mr Chadwick said the attack was "not related to the Mapuche people as a whole, but to a very minor, very small group which engages in extreme measures".
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Mapuche families have been moved to better land, but without the technical support or credit to plant it properly, and without the social networks that sustain them in their villages.
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Araucania is at the centre of disputes between the Mapuche, who say that the area is their ancestral land, and large landowners and forestry companies who have titles to the land.
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Prior to the disaster his administration had been under political fire for the slow pace of government reconstruction after the February earthquake and tsunami along Chile's south and central coast, and for his handling of a hunger strike by members of the Mapuche indigenous group of southern Chile, who are fighting for independence.
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