Rapa Nui

Since the meetings, the Indian Law Resource Center has continued to support Rapa Nui struggles for selfdetermination through consultation on various matters of concern to the Rapa Nui community (ilrc 2011a). According to Leviante Araki, president of Parlamento Rapa Nui, the case is designed as a step toward independence from Chilean rule and the return of island land that Chile stole from the Rapa Nui people (Noticias Terra, 15 Oct 2011). [...]in the local Rapa Nui language newspaper Tapura Re'o, Ivonne Calderon, a member of the Women's Makenu Re'o group, notably questioned the current form of the amendment. Despite the amendment, and official self-congratulations, the issues of migration remain unresolved on the ground. Besides the issues of immigration, as signified by the denunciations directed at Daniel Platovsky during the street protests of July 2011, Rapa Nui have voiced concern over island energy infrastructure supplied by the Sociedad Agrícola y Servicios Isla de Pascua (Corporation for Agricultural Services in Easter Island, or sasipa), of which Platovsky is president.