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    The long fight of the Mapuche people at times has turned violent. Pope Francis is about to get involved

    by Kate Linthicum and Jorge Poblete, Los Angeles Times Jan 17, 2018 3 minutes

    SANTIAGO, Chile - Pope Francis will step into the middle of one of South America's longest-running conflicts Wednesday when he visits the largely indigenous Araucania region of Chile.

    In the century and a half since they were conquered by Chile's military, the Mapuche people have continued to resist, demanding greater autonomy, legal recognition of their language and the return of their ancestral lands.

    While the vast majority of the estimated 1.4 million Mapuche people are

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