2019–2022 Chilean protests

The 2019–2022 Chilean protests, known in Chile as the Estallido Social (lit. social outburst), are a series of massive demonstrations and severe riots that originated in Santiago and spread to all regions of Chile, with a greater impact in the main cities, such as Greater Valparaíso, Greater Concepción, Greater La Serena, Arica, Iquique, Antofagasta, Rancagua, Chillán, Temuco, Valdivia, Osorno, Puerto Montt and Punta Arenas, developed mainly between October 2019 and March 2020. Civil protests took place throughout Chile in response to a raise in the Santiago Metro's subway fare, a probity crisis, cost of living, university graduate unemployment, privatisation and inequality prevalent in the country.

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Caption: enProtests in various Chilean cities, most notably Santiago.; --10-18; --10-19
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Causes: en* Rise in public transport fares * Probity crisis, cost of living, privatisation, and social inequality
Comment: enThe 2019–2022 Chilean protests, known in Chile as the Estallido Social (lit. social outburst), are a series of massive demonstrations and severe riots that originated in Santiago and spread to all regions of Chile, with a greater impact in the main cities, such as Greater Valparaíso, Greater Concepción, Greater La Serena, Arica, Iquique, Antofagasta, Rancagua, Chillán, Temuco, Valdivia, Osorno, Puerto Montt and Punta Arenas, developed mainly between October 2019 and March 2020. Civil protests took place throughout Chile in response to a raise in the Santiago Metro's subway fare, a probity crisis, cost of living, university graduate unemployment, privatisation and inequality prevalent in the country.
Concessions: en* President Piñera announces reforms in education, healthcare, and pension systems * Cabinet reshuffle, including Interior, Finance and Economy ministries * 2020 Chilean national plebiscite
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Date: enOctober 2021; --10-07
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Detentions: 28000
Direction: envertical
Fatalities: 36
Goals: en* Reversal of public transport fares * Reforms in education, health care, and pension systems * Better wages and minimum wage increase * Resignation of President Sebastián Piñera * Draft a new constitution
Has abstract: enThe 2019–2022 Chilean protests, known in Chile as the Estallido Social (lit. social outburst), are a series of massive demonstrations and severe riots that originated in Santiago and spread to all regions of Chile, with a greater impact in the main cities, such as Greater Valparaíso, Greater Concepción, Greater La Serena, Arica, Iquique, Antofagasta, Rancagua, Chillán, Temuco, Valdivia, Osorno, Puerto Montt and Punta Arenas, developed mainly between October 2019 and March 2020. Civil protests took place throughout Chile in response to a raise in the Santiago Metro's subway fare, a probity crisis, cost of living, university graduate unemployment, privatisation and inequality prevalent in the country. The protests began in Chile's capital, Santiago, as a coordinated fare evasion campaign by secondary school students which led to spontaneous takeovers of the city's main train stations and open confrontations with the Carabineros de Chile (the national police force). On 18 October, the situation escalated as a group of people began vandalizing city's infrastructure; seizing, vandalizing, and burning down many stations of the Santiago Metro network and disabling them with extensive infrastructure damage, and for a time causing the cessation of the network in its entirety. Eighty-one stations have sustained major damage, including seventeen burned down. On the same day, President of Chile Sebastián Piñera announced a state of emergency, authorizing the deployment of Chilean Army forces across the main regions to enforce order and prevent the destruction of public property, and invoked before the courts the Ley de Seguridad del Estado ("State Security Law") against dozens of detainees. A curfew was declared on 19 October in the Greater Santiago area. In the following days, protests and riots expanded to other Chilean cities, including Concepción, San Antonio and Valparaíso. The state of emergency was extended to the Concepción Province, all Valparaíso Region (except Easter Island and Juan Fernández Archipelago) and the cities of Antofagasta, Coquimbo, Iquique, La Serena, Rancagua, Valdivia, Osorno, and Puerto Montt. The protests have been considered the "worst civil unrest" having occurred in Chile since the end of Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship due to the scale of damage to public infrastructure, the number of protesters, and the measures taken by the government. Widespread looting occurred at shops and businesses. On 25 October 2019, over 1.2 million people took to the streets of Santiago to protest against social inequality, in what was called as "The biggest march of Chile." As of 28 December 2019, 29 people had died, nearly 2,500 had been injured and 2,840 had been arrested. Human rights organisations have received several reports of violations conducted against protesters by security forces, including eye mutilation, torture, sexual abuse and sexual assault. On 28 October 2019, President Piñera changed eight ministries of his cabinet in response to the unrest, dismissing his Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick. On 15 November 2019, Chile's National Congress signed an agreement to hold a national referendum that would rewrite the constitution if it were to be approved. The referendum was rescheduled from April to October 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile. On 25 October 2020, Chileans voted 78.28 per cent in favor of a new constitution, while 21.72 per cent rejected the change. Voter turnout was 51 per cent. On 16 May 2021, the election of the 155 Chileans who will form the convention which will draft the new constitution was voted. On November 18 Chilean security services discontinued an investigation on the presumed involvement of Cuban and Venezuelan agents in the protests, having not found any conclusive evidence. The pandemic provoked a reduction in the scale of the protests, with social distancing measures and eventual government-imposed lockdowns in place. An estimated 3.5 billion dollars and 300 thousand jobs, have been lost due to destruction and damage of public and private infrastructure, including the Santiago Metro, as a result of the protests and vandalism carried out mainly between October and November 2019. As of July 2021, the demonstrations have continued to focus every Friday almost exclusively around Plaza Baquedano, where between 100 to 500 people confront the police, vandalize the surroundings demanding for the liberation of the so-called "Prisoners of the Revolt".This continuation has been defined by the government as "acts of crime that do not respond to a demonstration or social demand." On 19 December 2021, former student leader and constitutional agreement negotiator, 35-year old leftist Gabriel Boric, was elected president of Chile in the 2021 Chilean presidential election with 55.86% of the vote. It was under his government that the referendum to approve the new Constitution was held on 4 September 2022.
Header: enOctober protests
Howmany: enOver 3.7 million protesters
Image: enBus de Transantiago quemado la noche de 2019.10.18 en Santiago de Chile.jpg; enFuerzas Especiales de Carabineros vigilando protesta en la rotonda Grecia , 2019.10.19.jpg
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Injuries: 11564
Is primary topic of: 2019–2022 Chilean protests
Label: en2019–2022 Chilean protests
Leadfigures: enAlberto Espina; enAndrés Chadwick; enEvelyn Matthei; enFelipe Alessandri; enFelipe Guevara; enGonzalo Blumel; enJavier Iturriaga; enKarla Rubilar; enMario Desbordes; enMario Rozas; enNo centralized leadership; enRicardo Yáñez; enRodrigo Delgado; enSebastián Piñera; enVíctor Pérez
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Methods: enProtests, fare evasion, civil disobedience, rioting, and looting
SameAs: 2019–2022 Chilean protests; 2019-2022 Şili protestoları; 2019ko Txileko protestak; 2019년 칠레 시위; 2019－2020年智利示威; 2020; Ad8Zg; Biểu tình Chile 2019–2020; Estalido social de Chile en 2019; Estallido social; Manifestations de 2019-2021 au Chili; Proteste in Cile del 2019-2020; Protesterna i Chile 2019; Protestes a Xile de 2019; Protestos chilen de 2019; Protestos no Chile em 2019–2020; Protesty w Chile (2019); Q71500435; Unjuk rasa Chili 2019–2021; Пратэсты у Чылі (2019); Протести у Чилеу (од 2018); Протесты в Чили (2019); Բողոքի ակցիաներ Չիլիում (2019); המחאות בצ'ילה (2019–2020); اعتراضات ۲۰۱۹ شیلی; الاحتجاجات التشيلية 2019–2021; การประท้วงในชิลี พ.ศ. 2562; チリ暴動 (2019年-2020年)
Side: enGovernment * Chilean Armed Forces * Carabineros de Chile * Grupo de Operaciones Policiales Especiales * Investigations Police of Chile; enProtesters * Primera Línea * Anarchists * Mesa de Unidad Social
Status: --10-20
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