Chile | Sebatián Piñera yielded with the reduction of a tax that benefited entrepreneurs

President Sebastián Piñera has informed major businessmen that he would no longer be favored by a bill aimed at reducing taxes of the richest in Chile, while they were recording incidents again this afternoon, when thousands of protesters gathered in Plaza Italia, in central Santiago to express its rejection of government policy.

After meeting Finance Minister Alfonso Swett, head of the powerful Confederation of Production and Trade, on Friday, he said: "We are determined to be part of the solution, it is time for the pain to be replaced by a solution. " love".

Swett, accompanied by other businessmen, asked his colleagues to discuss three issues with their workers: family debt, wages, and huge efforts that thousands of people spent on their own. employees deploy every day to get to work after much of the metro. The city was destroyed during the demonstrations. Chileans have an average salary of between $ 500 and $ 700 and a minimum salary of $ 400, which Piñera has offered to raise for $ 65.

In addition, Piñera seeks to curb the massive demonstrations with a set of social measures of slight improvements and a new cabinet consisting of two ministers of the liberal center, including the Treasury, Ignacio Briones, who are characterized by their willingness to dialogue.

The Minister of the Interior met today with mayors across the country, with whom the government will encourage dialogue to gather the views of citizens.

The demonstration this afternoon again recorded clashes with Chilean security forces, as there were leaks, tear gas and some damage in downtown Santiago. About half a hundred people traveled for two and a half days from Limache, 100 kilometers to the northwest, to join demonstrations in the Chilean capital.

In addition, some 3,000 women dressed in black, with white carnations in their hands, walked silently along the main avenue of the city, as part of the feast that commemorates the dead, in memory of At least 20 people died as a result of death. beginning of the social epidemic.