Chile: curfew is over and streets are empty and militarized

At 7 am, the curfew imposed yesterday by President Sebastián Piñera ended and Chile regained its calm partially paralyzed transport, the airport has collapsed and with military deployment in several avenues and central accesses of the country's major cities.

Throughout the morning, the government imposed a curfew on the municipalities of Coquimbo and La Serena, in northern Chile, and Rancagua, in the city center. this triggered the increase of the metro ticket and continued even after the suspension of this measure.

Despite the curfew and the militarization of the streets, the metro Valparaíso, the train that connects the entire metropolitan region of this region, announced that it would not restart the service and the authorities of the bus and subway services of the city informed him. .

In Santiago, on the other hand, the metropolitan transport network Transantiago announced that it would work – although restarted with delay – and that, if there were new demonstrations, it would change route.

The protests culminated with burning buildings and at least three deaths in a burning supermarket, which created a climate of shock and uncertainty in the country.

The government has planned to meet at 2 pm with representatives of the judiciary to analyze the situation. Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick and General Javier Iturriaga, appointed by Piñera in the early hours of the morning, were appointed to head the state 's emergency. national, they arrived at the Palacio de la Moneda to meet the president.

In the statement that informed the curfew yesterday, the first since 1987, the government said that "the validity of the rule will be evaluated periodically", so that it is not clear whether this will be repeated tonight.