Tension continues in Chile: three dead and more than 700 arrested

The third death is a man, a Peruvian national, who lost his life in another fire in the Matiderna Lider supermarket in downtown Santiago.

Interior Minister Andres Chadwick, realized that "at 4 am, during a military patrol, two people were shot dead, near the densely populated municipality of Puente Alto, La Pintana, to the south-east of the captain.

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Despite the curfew in Santiago de Chile and other localities, the tension

still in the trans-Andean country with the army stationed in the street and a record of at least three deaths.

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The day ended with a total of 625 people arrested and "passed to the prosecutor's office" in the capital and 91 others in the regions, or 716 detainees in the country. Add to that the allegations of 15 wounded civilians across the country and 61 wounded policemen, according to the official report.

Before the announcement of the curfew, the Chilean President, Sebastian Piñera, in the only intervention of the day, announced Saturday night the suspension of the increase of the passage of the subway for which a fast legislative process is required.

The curfew, which began to prevail Saturday at 10 pm, was criticized by opposition representatives and experts.

"Calling the dialogue with the machine gun at the table seems to me to be a pretty serious rhetorical exercise," said Lucia Dammert, an academic at the University of Santiago.

"The hour of the dialogue was yesterday.Today, with the soldiers in the street, they must propose clear measures, a change of equipment and the withdrawal of the army," he declared.

Despite criticism, Defense Minister Alberto Espina said today that "the work done by our armed forces and our police to maintain control of the security and tranquility of our people has been and remains truly our indispensable support, as the whole country has shown. "

"As a government, we have made every effort to be able to fulfill our duty, which is to ensure the safety of people and the control of public order," he added. .

On Saturday evening, 7,941 soldiers from the armed forces and police were deployed to mainly develop the city's "critical infrastructure management" function and the "patrol" of the streets, Espina said.

This Sunday at noon, thousands of people returned to gather in Plaza Italia, although the riflemen launched many tear gas.

In different areas of the capital, you can hear the sound of the pans while Santiago Airport has collapsed as a result of the cancellation of flights.

The Psychoanalytical Association of Santiago (APSAN) has manifested "deeply moved" and interpreted that "it is the collective pain that must be welcomed".

"This collective suffering with multiple faces: he is the child of Sename (institution in charge of abandoned children), he is the old man of the asylum or the one who puts his house in danger for want of contribution, he is the unemployed person who the patient who does not have access to treatment, the teenager trying to commit suicide and many others, "he said.

"They all asked us a thousand times for help and, in a thousand ways, we had to reach extreme expressions to be seen, to affect ourselves and not to remain indolent in front of the suffering of others," he said. he said, calling "a new social pact" within the government. Chilean company