Laura Tarita Alarcón Rapu is a Rapa Nui Chilean politician, current governor of

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since 16 March 2018. She earned a degree in anthropology and until 2018 was member of the Valparaíso Region Council for the province of Easter for two tenures. On 5 March 2018, being a defensor of Rapa Nui traditions, culture, heritage and language, at the age of 41 newly elected

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named her the new governor of the Island, succeeding

Melania Hotu Melania Carolina Hotu Hey (born 8 February 1959) is a Rapa Nui Chilean politician. She has served as the provincial governor of Easter Island (known locally as ''Rapa Nui'' or as ''Isla de Pascua'' in Spanish), in Chilean Polynesia, in the first an ...

. She worked in the "Te Hokinga Mai" project, consisting of the return of local heritage that was abroad.Laura Tarita Rapu Alarcón

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