Boric's Outreach to Chile's Mapuche Has Hit Some Roadblocks.

Chile's recently inaugurated president, Gabriel Boric,campaigned on a platform emphasizing urgent reforms(https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/30209/with-boric-chile-politics-couldbecome- a-model-for-the-left) to shore up socialrights in Chile, particularly health care, education andpensions, all of which were a focus of the protests thaterupted across the country in October 2019. While there has been long-standing historicalconflict between the Chilean state and Indigenouspeoples--especially the Mapuche, by far the largest of thecountry's 10 Indigenous groups--the relationship hasbecome increasingly conflictual in recent decades. [Extracted from the article]