This Day in History: 1997-06-10

Mapuche protest Ralco Dam A group of Mapuche Indians occupy Chile’s Indigenous Affairs Bureau and Environmental Protection Board to protest the licensing of the Ralco Dam on Chile’s Bio-Bio River on this day in 1997. The $550 million, 155-meter dam was built in an Indiginous people’s reserve. It was completed in 2004 but the Mapuche conflict goes on.