Tag: economic inequality

• Tuesday, February 25th 2020 - 07:35 UTC

  Chile's main rock festival turned into major clashes and arson between protesters and police

  

  Thousands of protesters armed with stones, sticks and Molotov cocktails clashed with police on Sunday as one of Latin America's biggest music festival opened, in the latest spurt of a four-month-old wave of grassroots anger over economic inequality and other woes.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Three weeks of protests and looting in Chile: demands for a new constitution and a change in the political system

  

  Protesters in Chile clashed with police, looted stores and endured a strong earthquake at the close of a huge rally kicking off the third week of anti-government demonstrations that have sparked deadly unrest. In effect as protestors promised it was a “super Monday”, rather a heck of a Monday.