Riot police intervened in Chile’s capital Santiago on Thursday amid clashes between lorry drivers and indigenous people. <br /><br /> The truckers were protesting at arson attacks on their vehicles which they blame on Chile’s Mapuche indigenous group, amid a row over its historic land rights. <br /><br /> Lorries heading to the demonstration blocked roads to the city.<br /><br /> The Mapuche account for about 600,000 of Chile’s 17 million inhabitants and are largely clustered in the country’s central-south region, one of its poorest regions and home to much of its forestry and paper industry.<br /><br /> Years of conflict over land claims have increasingly flared into violence between the Mapuche, Chile’s biggest indigenous group, and notably, local farmers, forestry companies and police.
