NY Times · Jun 24, 2015
Indigenous Group Plants Its Flag in Copa América
Photo Members of the Mapuche ethnic group demonstrated over land claims outside the airport in Temuco, Chile, on June 10 as the Peruvian football team arrived to take part in the Copa América. Credit Rodrigo Buendia/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images TEMUCO, Chile — On a cold, rainy afternoon just a few hours before Brazil played Peru in the Copa América last week, four policemen stood guard by a set of flagpoles in the town square here. Days earlier someone had managed to take down one of the red, white and blue Chilean flags and replaced it with the traditional Mapuche flag in a peaceful but poignant protest.