Mass mobilization in Chile shouting "Piñera ya …

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"Piñera was already", with the same cadence as that sung "Chile is awake" during the six days of unrest in the streets of Santiago
it was the music that thundered during Alameda's more than one kilometer walk of gas and pellets that triggered the riflemen's assault cars. Today is the first march organized by the unions in an organized manner and constitutes a firm response to the measures announced last night by the President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera.
during the curfew.

The city of Santiago de Chile is militarized, there are many more effective than yesterday
and its obvious mission is that the demonstration does not reach the Mint until the Los Heroes metro station, as planned. At one o'clock in the afternoon, thousands and thousands of demonstrators defy the troops with their hands in the air to show themselves unarmed, without encouragement to violence, as, as the posters say "we are not at war, we are defending our dignity". However, this gesture is repelled again and again with jets of toxic water that force the vomiting and violently irritate the mucous membranes. The relief comes from the hand of more protesters who offer lemons and bicarbonate water.

Before ten o'clock in the morning, the streets were completely emptied and the columns began to form. At the same time, protesters summoned by themselves began to invade the surroundings of Plaza Italia. The route of the event was traced from Plaza Italia to Los Heroes del metro station.

After a night in which images of municipalities claiming protection against an alleged shortage abound on television, this Wednesday, the first day of the strike, supermarkets were opened to avoid panic. Mario Miguel Jorquera, president of the Wallmart Workers Federation, which brings together 15,000 workers, said Page / 12 that it was the "balance sheet" they had reached today to "hold outlets" through an agreement with the workers' organization of which the company was not a part. In the same spirit, this guild "calls the population to remain calm", especially with the neighbors who come out with yellow vests to defend the refueling stations equipped with baseball bats. "Do not do it, they defend multinationals who have insurance, a looting does not even hurt them but neighbors put the body in encouragement by the history of buildings that want to generate divisions"

The response to Piñera's announcements

The set of proposals for a "social agenda of national unity" announced overnight by the Chilean president brings together the rejection of a large chilean population. The feminist coordinator of the 8M and the 60 organizations gathered yesterday in an assembly denounced the fact that these measures represent only "subsidies for administrators of pension funds (AFP) that do not directly touch the hands of the most needy and are Fixes They will not solve this situation. "

In the same vein, Vilma Álvarez, leader of the Jumbo Union, told the newspaper that the coordinator had defined the measures taken by Piñera "as another way to continue transferring funds to the financial sectors without giving any respite to the population ". "The demand is that Piñera denounce and that a constituent assembly be constituted"highlighted.

The demand to give up is so strong that, although the city is militarized, it does not seem that there will be changes or that the proposed measures will bring some relief to those who claim in the streets.. "Culinary militias, cafishos del Estado", are heard while in the sky completely clear clouds but dirty gas, the army helicopters fly over Alameda.

The only ones who have expressed "in favor" of the president's apology are the members of Evópoli, a liberal party demanding change of the political class, but not of the system, according to Ignacia Galilea, president of the youth. The members of this party walked the streets with chins and plastic brooms, showing that they wanted to help clean the city. But yesterday, there was no damage because the bus stops were broken since Friday and in some burned places, there was no more disturbances.

The demonstrations are completely peaceful and, as a result, these boys and girls are instead raising papers, tear gas left yesterday and garbage bags burned to counter the effects of gases, which are in fact numerous.

These words are written with the sound of whistles in the background, the desperate screams of those who ask the men in uniform to let them pass and the columns that escape along the sides, thus risking enclosures to respect the planned route. In Santiago, no one wants to return to normal, nor accept correctives to their requests; So this story will definitely continue.