'We're still in the dark': a missing land defender and the deadly toll of land conflict on Indigenous people

Julia Chu?il is one of 146 land defenders who were killed or went missing last year, a third of them from Indigenous communitiesOne day last November, Julia Chu?il called for her dog, Cholito, and they set off into the woods around her home to search for lost livestock. The animals returned but Chu?il, who was 72 at the time, and Cholito did not.More than 100 people joined her family in a search lasting weeks in the steep, wet and densely overgrown terrain of Chile's ancient Valdivian forest. After a month, they even kept an eye on vultures for any grim signs. But they found no trace of Chu?il. Continue reading...