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The unfurling of the Mapuche flag, created at the reunion of Argentinian and Chilean Mapuche.

At a meeting in Nequen, Argentina, Mapuche leaders laid the foundation for teaching of traditional Mapuche philosophy, language, and religion.

The Chilean government has convicted Mapuche people for the "illegal usurpation of land." The Chilean government have imposed harsh fines, which the Mapuche are attempting to appeal.

SAIIC interviews Genaro Oliver, member of the Confederation of Campesino Unions of Bolivia (CSUTCB). Genaro Oliver believes the organization must consider the reality of ethnic identity

The Aymaras of San Andrés de Machaca in Bolivia, frustrated with politcal parties' manipulation of their leaders, dissolved the campesino union and replaced it with a traditonal Ayllu Federation.

The Coordinating Commission of Indigenous Women of Bolivia will hold the First National Encounter of Indigenous Women of Bolivia on June 21-23, 1993 in Tiwanaku.

CONAIE has condemned the treatment of indigenous communities at the hands of paramilitary groups near Veracruz.

The killing and torture of indigenous peoples en the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta has been condemned by Amnesty International.

Guatemalan refugees return to Guatemala from Mexico. Most fled to escape the military's scorched earth tactics in the 1980s.

The Panamanian government has been condemned by the international community for attacking indigenous groups living within the Ngobe-Bugle region and the Wargandi Reserve, areas that international groups had demanded receive protections.

A Nahuat man, Anastacio Esquino, died at the age of 117 years in April 1993 in his home village. Anastacio Esquino survived the 1935 massacre at the hands of the Salvadoran army.

The purpose of the Second Encounter of the International Committee of the Indigenous Press was to continue the process of decolonization of the media and to launch the First Continental Office of the Indigenous Press.