The initiative was convened on social media with the
slogan 'The biggest march of all' and was intended to replicate last Friday's
march.
Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of
Chile on Friday, two weeks after the start of protests that have already left
at least 20 dead, to show that discontent with social inequality is still
alive.
Citizenship
turned to Santiago, as well as in other cities such as Valparaiso, Concepción
or Punta Arenas. In the capital people began to accumulate during the
afternoon in Plaza Italia.
The initiative was convened by social media with the
slogan 'The biggest march of all' and was intended to replicate last Friday's
march, when 1.2 million people crowded into the central capital square.
This Friday's march has not become as massive as that,
but it has become very crowded. At about 19:30 official sources of the
Intendency numbered 20,000 people, which was heavily criticized by the
citizens, who believe that there were many more people.
The protesters are calling for improvements in the
pension system, health and education, as well as a reduction in the prices of
transport, electricity or consumer goods.
Demands that have concentrated the demands during these
14 days and to which the petition for the resignation of President Sebastián
Piñera has been added, who despite announcing a social agenda and dismissing
eight ministers still does not convince the public.
Since the National Institute for Human Rights (INDH),
4,271 detainees have been arrested across the country and 1,305 civilians
injured, 755 by gunfire (perels, rubber balls, bullets or unidentified weapon),
as well as acts of sexual torture during arrests, beatings, abuses and unlawful
arrests.
SOURCE: EITB
