Chile commemorates 3rd anniversary of social uprising
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- 20 Oct 2022
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Chile celebrated Tuesday the third anniversary of the social uprising that catapulted Gabriel Boric Font to the national center stage and eventually become president. The movement also had its martyrs from brutal police repression.
The riots left some 30 people dead and thousands wounded, many of them losing their eyesight. Looting and arson were also commonplace.
Students in Santiago took to the streets Tuesday while marches were staged in different parts of the country. The most crowded mobilization took place in the afternoon in Santiago's Plaza Italia, the epicenter of the social revolt three years ago. Some hooded demonstrators set up barricades around Plaza Italia and a large police squad dispersed them with gas and water.
In his speech from La Moneda, Boric urged Chileans to “get out of the trenches and out of our comfort zone to interpret what happened and act.”
“It was not an anti-capitalist revolution nor was it a pure wave of violence. It was an expression of pain and of the fractures in our society to which politics has not known how to respond,” he added regarding the 2019 protests which started after an increase in the price of the subway ticket. Read More...
