Why Thousands Are Protesting in the Streets of Chile - Literary Hub 🔗 📰 🌎 ✊🏽 🇨🇱

Right now, there is a human rights crisis in Chile. Following massive protests against an increase in public transportation fares, president Sebastián Piñera ordered the military to take over the streets after declaring a State of Emergency on Friday, October 18. A curfew was imposed on Saturday. Far from backing down, thousands of Chileans poured into the streets to demand an end to the militarization of the democratic order and to the criminalization of protesters, thousands of whom were arrested; at least twenty of whom have been killed…. During the past week, while a massive amount of people have joined the peaceful protests and assemblies across the country, Piñera’s administration has cynically mislabeled this social discontent as ‘war,’ and has called the ‘enemy’—a group of high school student leaders—‘dangerous,’ citing situations that are dubiously provoked by masked people (friendly with the police), the criminals from this ‘headless’ movement.

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