Mass Protest Movement in Chile
Thousands of students, labor groups and activists march in Santiago as fires and violence run rampant during citywide demonstration.
More than 100,000 gathered throughout various locations in Santiago on Wednesday afternoon to march for sweeping social changes aimed at improving education and working conditions.
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The mobilization was part of a nationwide strike organized by the Confederation of Chilean Students (Confech), an umbrella student group, and was accompanied by other marches in key cities throughout the country as well as a massive halt to the country’s port operations.
Participants in the Santiago march included university and high school students, the National Teacher’s Union, port workers, copper workers and The National Confederation of Municipal Health Workers, among others.
But despite the color and cheer of marching bands and costumed protesters, hooded vandals known as “encapuchados,” wasted no time in dragging the city into violence.
Carabineros, Chile’s uniformed police force, were deployed to the streets early in the morning as various barricades and garbage piles were set ablaze throughout the city just before sunrise.
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Thousands of students, labor groups and activists march in Santiago as fires and violence run rampant during citywide demonstration.
More than 100,000 gathered throughout various locations in Santiago on Wednesday afternoon to march for sweeping social changes aimed at improving education and working conditions.
...
The mobilization was part of a nationwide strike organized by the Confederation of Chilean Students (Confech), an umbrella student group, and was accompanied by other marches in key cities throughout the country as well as a massive halt to the country’s port operations.
Participants in the Santiago march included university and high school students, the National Teacher’s Union, port workers, copper workers and The National Confederation of Municipal Health Workers, among others.
But despite the color and cheer of marching bands and costumed protesters, hooded vandals known as “encapuchados,” wasted no time in dragging the city into violence.
Carabineros, Chile’s uniformed police force, were deployed to the streets early in the morning as various barricades and garbage piles were set ablaze throughout the city just before sunrise.
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