Tag: tear gas

• Saturday, August 29th 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  Chilean special force officer arrested for blinding a woman with a tear gas canister

  

  A Chilean special forces captain has been arrested for assault in relation to an incident in which a woman was blinded by a tear gas canister during the massive social protests that rocked the country in 2019.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Ecuador declares state of emergency to contain protests against elimination of fuel subsidies

  

  Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno declared a state of emergency Thursday as protests broke out nationwide over the end of decades-old fuel subsidies as part of a $2 billion government fiscal reform package. Police responded with tear gas in the worst unrest for years in the oil-producing Andean nation.