Barricades and Roadblocks in Santiago de Chile
Santiago de Chile, Sep 5 (Prensa Latina) Several incidents were recorded this morning at different sites in this capital as protesters put up barricades, burned tires and blocked major roads.
The demonstrations come following a call issued by the Social Unity platform, made up of over 60 social organizations, for a National Day of Protest this Thursday.
Television and radio media reported incidents in La Granja commune, where protesters burned tires at the intersection of Yungay and Las Industrias avenues, as well as the intersection of Vicuña Mackenna and La Parroquia, at the Vicente Valdés railway station, in Florida.
Protesters also handed out flyers calling for mobilizations under the slogan 'We are fed up, join us,' to demand from the government improvements in public health, free and quality education, defense of heritage and in favor of the 40-hour working week. Barricades were also put up on Route 68, heading for the city of Valparaíso, as well as sites in the communes of Quilicura and Recoleta, in the north of the Chilean capital, where protesters clashed with police.
The Traffic Control Operational Unit also reported incidents at several junctions of Américo Vespucio Avenue.
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(Remember that September 11 is the day of the horrific violent coup against leftist Salvador Allende.)
From Wikipedia:
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed moment in both the history of Chile and the Cold War. Following an extended period of social unrest and political tension between the opposition-controlled Congress of Chile and the socialist President Salvador Allende, as well as economic warfare ordered by US President Richard Nixon,[5] Allende was overthrown by the armed forces and national police.[6][7]
The military deposed Allende's Popular Unity government and later established a junta that suspended all political activity in Chile and repressed left-wing movements, especially communist and socialist parties and the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR). Allende's appointed army chief, Augusto Pinochet, rose to supreme power within a year of the coup, formally assuming power in late 1974.[8] The Nixon administration, which had worked to create the conditions for the coup,[9][10][11] promptly recognized the junta government and supported it in consolidating power.[12]
During the air raids and ground attacks that preceded the coup, Allende gave his final speech, in which he vowed to stay in the presidential palace, refusing offers of safe passage should he choose exile over confrontation.[13] Direct witness accounts of Allende's death agree that he killed himself in the palace.[14][15]
Before the coup, Chile had been hailed as a beacon of democracy and political stability for decades, a period that had seen the rest of South America plagued by military juntas and caudillismo. The collapse of Chilean democracy ended a succession of democratic governments in Chile, which had held democratic elections since 1932.[16] Historian Peter Winn characterised the 1973 coup as one of the most violent events in the history of Chile.[17] A weak insurgent movement against the Pinochet regime was maintained inside Chile by elements sympathetic to the former Allende government. An internationally supported plebiscite in 1988 held under the auspices of the military dictatorship was followed by a peaceful transition to an elected civilian government.
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
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Updated 2:52 PM The young demonstrator locked eyes with a riot policeman during a pro democracy protest in Santiago, ChileET, Wed September 14, 2016
The young demonstrator locked eyes with a riot policeman during a pro democracy protest in Santiago, Chile
(CNN)The defiant look in a young woman's eyes as she stared at an armored riot policeman has prompted this photograph from Chile to go viral.
The unidentified young woman was photographed during protests in Santiago, marking 43 years since the bloody military coup, which resulted in President Salvador Allende being overthrown, killed, and replaced with a military government led by Augusto Pinochet.
The protesters were honoring the victims of the Pinochet regime -- the dictator was accused of ordering the torture and killing of thousands of people during his 17 years in power. He died in 2006 without ever being tried on the allegations.
The march was organized by an association representing relatives of the disappeared.
More:
https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/14/americas/chile-girl-protest-photo/index.html