According to the Presidency, the ceremony will take place at 12:00 local time and will be led by President Gabriel Boric.

During the first of three visits to the La Araucanía region on last December, Boric invited all the stakeholders to form a commission that takes into account the recommendations of national and international organizations and makes them a reality.

According to what the President said on that occasion, the group will have a specific mandate: to clearly determine the land demand of the Mapuches and propose mechanisms with specific deadlines to repair the debt of the State of Chile with the community.

The Mapuches are the most numerous indigenous people in the country and for decades they have been demanding the return of ancestral lands, mostly in the hands of forestry and agricultural companies.

In recent years, acts of violence have been recorded in the so-called Southern Macrozone, causing the death of indigenous people, settlers and law enforcement agents, as well as fires on land and agricultural machinery.

In a recent interview with Prensa Latina, academic Pedro Canales assured that the usurpation and dispossession of indigenous territories by the State is the main reason for the violence experienced today.

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