Tension continues in Chile: seven dead and more than 800 people arrested

The president on Saturday suspended the rise in the metro ticket, from 800 to 830 pesos ($ 1.2) on Friday, but failed to restore calm in the country and, on the contrary, l & # 39; Noisy Cacerolazos concern, extended to areas outside the metropolitan area.

Despite the validity of the curfew, dozens of demonstrators on Saturday evening burned the building of the newspaper El Mercurio, the most traditional of the country, in the port of Valparaíso.

The military patrolled the streets aboard tanks and other vehicles and overflew the areas disrupted by helicopters in order to avoid new fires in the subway system, the most modern and the most expensive. 39 Latin America. this only caused losses of $ 300 million and could keep some lines frozen for four months.

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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.

Image: Argentine News.

Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick explained that two people had died and that another had been seriously injured after looting a supermarket. On the other hand, the death of five other people was confirmed in the fire of a vineyard in Renca.

Chile has one of the most stable economies in the region, but its inequalities are considerable and has led to protests for insufficient access to secondary and university education, health and pensions. . However, previous events had not led to such chaos.