Possible Color Revolution Beginning in Chile

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Chile's deadly weekend of fire as youth anger ignites

Chile's capital Santiago has been singed by fire. In riots sparked by anger over fare hikes, masked and hooded protesters have torched buses, metro stations, supermarkets, banks and the high-rise headquarters of a major energy firm.

Chile army issues new curfew in Chilean capital Santiago as protests continue

The Chilean military declared another night-time curfew in the capital on Sunday as the government struggled to contain violent protests, looting and arson in the streets over recent fare hikes in public transportation.

Chile's Pinera extends state of emergency, says 'we are at war'

Chile's government will extend a state of emergency to cities in its north and south, President Sebastian Pinera said late on Sunday, after at least seven people were killed amid violent clashes and arson attacks over the weekend.

Three dead in Chile protest violence

Demonstrators shouted “enough with abuse,” while the hashtag #ChileDesperto — Chile awake — made the rounds on social media. (File/AFP)

SANTIAGO: Three people died in a fire in a supermarket being ransacked in the Chilean capital early Sunday, as protests sparked by anger over social and economic conditions rocked one of Latin America’s most stable countries.

U.N.'s Bachelet calls for probes into Chile protest deaths

U.N. human rights boss Michelle Bachelet, a former president of Chile, called on Monday for independent investigations into deaths in weekend protests there, citing "disturbing allegations" of excessive use of force by security forces.

Chile´s mining industry operating normally despite violent protests: minister

Chile´s mining industry was running as normal despite the violent protests that have rocked the capital, Santiago, and other cities across the world´s top copper producer, Mining Minister Baldo Prokurica said on Sunday.

Workers at Chile's Escondida copper mine, world's largest, to walk off job Tuesday

The union of workers at BHP's Escondida copper mine will hold a day-long strike on Tuesday in a show of solidarity with protests in Chile, the union president told Reuters on Monday.

Chile's Larrain says civil unrest will 'undoubtedly' have an impact on the economy

Chile's finance minister Felipe Larrain said on Monday that civil unrest which has claimed 11 lives, shut down the transport network and seen scores of businesses damaged will "undoubtedly" have an impact on the economy.

Chile's Pinera vows 'new social contract' amid massive marches against inequality

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said on Monday evening he would meet opposition leaders to forge a "new social contract" to alleviate inequality as thousands of Chileans defied a military curfew in protest marches around the capital.

 

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Chile's Pinera seeks forgiveness from hard-pressed citizens, offers rescue package

Soldiers detain suspected looters as protests against high living costs continue, in Concepcion, Chile October 22, 2019. REUTERS/Juan Gonzalez

Chile's President Sebastian Pinera announced an ambitious raft of measures on Tuesday, aiming to quell protests against his government with a guaranteed minimum wage, a hike in the state pension offering and the stabilization of electricity costs.

Pinera said he hoped to turn recent violent protests into an “opportunity” for Chile, to “make up for lost time, pick up the pace and take concrete and urgent steps” to resolve inequality that has sent tens of thousands into the streets to demand an economic overhaul and, in some cases, his removal.

The 69-year-old centre-right president asked for forgiveness for successive governments on both left and right that failed to act sooner to stem deep inequalities in Latin America´s fifth-largest economy.

“It is true that problems accumulated for many decades and that different governments were not able to recognize this situation in all its magnitude,” he said.

“I recognize and apologize for this lack of vision.”

The pledges came after a tumultuous start to the week for Pinera, who was widely criticized for saying on Monday that Chile was “at war” with violent protesters, as thousands of people held successive, peaceful demonstrations demanding an end to low wages and a high cost of living.

At least 15 people have died in protests that started over a hike in public transport costs, prompting a weekend of riots, arson attacks and looting of businesses and the declaration of a state of emergency by Pinera over a large swath of Chile.

Further protests are expected on Wednesday, along with a general strike called in solidarity with the demonstrations that will include the union of top copper miner Codelco, opening a potentially new, damaging front in the crisis for the world´s top producer of the red metal.

On Tuesday, Pinera held a roundtable for politicians of all colors to forge a new “social contract” to help Chile´s poor and middle-classes, who find themselves battling economic pressures.

In a speech delivered from La Moneda presidential palace shortly before 10 p.m., he pledged to up the minimum pension by 20% and increase the state´s contribution for the middle classes and women, fast-track a law to introduce a state critical illness cover, cut prices of medicines for the poor, and guarantee a minimum wage of $480 a month.

The state would intervene to stabilize an electricity utility hike, and rebalance disparities in municipal budgets to support poorer areas, he said.

He recognized the potentially “enormous” cost of the new measures, and also announced a new tax bracket of 40% for those earning more than $11,000 a month, as well as looking to cut the wages of lawmakers and public officials.

Pinera´s offer represented “an enormous victory for our citizens,” said socialist Oscar Landerretche, a former chairman of state copper miner Codelco and touted presidential candidate for 2021.

“Chileans have managed to completely overhaul the government’s economic agenda,” he added.

Cristobal Bellolio, a political commentator based at Santiago’s University of Adolo Ibanez, said the pledges were “a step in the right direction” but added, “I don’t know if it’s enough.”

Jump in Arrests
On Tuesday, prosecutors confirmed the death toll in the unrest had risen to 15 people, adding that 5,400 people had been detained by the security forces - a significant and unexplained leap from the 2,600 earlier confirmed by a government spokesman.

There were further, massive marches around the country, triggering more clashes with police and soldiers. In a poor area of Santiago, protesters were pictured hijacking a city bus to ram into a department store.

In an open letter to Pinera, rights group Amnesty International said it was concerned over human rights violations and limitations imposed by the military during city-wide evening lockdowns.

“The sole fact that some groups or people have committed acts of violence in a protest does not authorize security forces to dissolve them with the use of force,” said Erika Guevara, the group’s Americas director.

The military general in charge of security in Santiago said he was aware of videos circulating on social media suggesting brutality by police or the military in tackling protesters and vandals.

“We are investigating every one of these situations,” General Javier Iturriaga told reporters. “We’re not going to hide anything.”

Interior ministry sub-secretary Rodrigo Ubilla initially declined to identify the 15 killed since last Friday, but the national prosecutor’s office later named seven.

In a heated exchange with reporters, Ubilla said 11 people had died in arson attempts, looting and rioting in Santiago, while two people had died of gunshot wounds. Two others died in vehicle-related accidents, one outside of Santiago and one, further south, in the port city of Talcahuano.

Prosecutors said the Talcahuano death was that of a 23-year-old man run over by a military vehicle, and that a soldier had been charged with culpable homicide for the shooting of a man in northern Coquimbo.

The Chilean Institute for Human Rights said by Monday night it had registered 84 people injured by firearms.

U.N. human rights boss Michelle Bachelet, a former president of Chile, has called for independent investigations into the deaths in weekend protests.

"New Social Contract
Pinera announced his new social plan after a crisis summit with coalition and opposition lawmakers on Tuesday.

Almost all the key left-leaning opposition parties rejected the invitation to talks until Pinera showed proof of safeguarding the human rights of protesters and removed the armed forces from the streets.

Members of Pinera’s coalition and a handful of opposition figures who did attend the talks told reporters they had pushed for quick and sweeping reforms to quell the unrest and economic inequality.

“The president needs to listen to what the people are asking for, which is profound social change. He must listen to the people, not just political parties,” said former foreign minister Heraldo Munoz, head of the center-left Democratic Party (PPD).

Some politicians and protesters pointed to a leaked audio recording of first lady Cecilia Morel as proof of a disconnect between ordinary voters and Pinera, a billionaire businessman who introduced credit cards to Chile in the 1980s.

“We’ve been overrun, it’s like an alien invasion,” Morel said in the audio, which authorities confirmed as authentic. “We’re going to have to cut back on our privileges and share with the rest of them.”

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Chile's Pinera seeks forgiveness from hard-pressed citizens, offers rescue package

 

[Courageous Inmate Sort]

High school and university students began the protest after the government hiked fares on Oct. 6 by as much as $1.17 for a peak metro ride, blaming higher energy costs and a weaker peso.

Reading this immediately brought to mind the Brazilian wave of protests of June 2013, which were allegedly triggered by a 20 cents bus fare hike. Similarly to Chile, the government reversed the hike and promised to make serious reforms. The reversal did not stop the protests, whose object now extended to various unrelated issues. The promised reforms did not happen. This wave of protests later helped give impetus to the social acceptance of Operation Car Wash - with its many illegalities - as a panacea that would clean the country of all problems and corruption; and the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in favor of a more neoliberal and pro-US government under Michel Temer. It was a marker event that presaged many years of political instability and the end of the Workers' Party era in the federal government.

For those in Chile, take good care and thank you for the "boots on the ground" reports.

 

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26 October before midday

Military lifts curfew for almost all of Chile including the Santiago and Valparaiso regions.

President announces a new comprehensive social agenda with a new cabinet to implement it.

State of emergency decree itself will expire next Monday.

Yesterday, the largest gathering of Chileans at Plaza Baquedano in Santiago since the "No" vote more than 30 years ago occurred.

Incredible how fast things move. It was this past Monday in the midst of the fear, uncertainty and doubt that the police and military prevented anarchists from destroying the commercial center of my barrio here on the coast.

 

[loreta]

26 October before midday

Military lifts curfew for almost all of Chile including the Santiago and Valparaiso regions.

President announces a new comprehensive social agenda with a new cabinet to implement it.

State of emergency decree itself will expire next Monday.

Yesterday, the largest gathering of Chileans at Plaza Baquedano in Santiago since the "No" vote more than 30 years ago occurred.

Incredible how fast things move. It was this past Monday in the midst of the fear, uncertainty and doubt that the police and military prevented anarchists from destroying the commercial center of my barrio here on the coast.

Do you think that everything will be normal from now?

 

[ApotheosisMMC.]

Do you think that everything will be normal from now?

I take the freedom to respond, NO ... in general people understand that there will be no other opportunity of this magnitude to put pressure, so the demonstrations will not stop until the demands that are relatively high and demand a radical change are approved in the whole structure ... I don't see any encouragement to stop, on the contrary one sees a certain delight of the people to feel that they have the power to change things ... and not to mention the marginal sectors that enjoy burning and looting .

The demonstrations despite being peaceful and in a party tone are mainly interrupted by tear gas ... and this is the only thing that generates more anger ... I think it is possible that the country falls into a situation of crisis of no return. ..but little does that matter to us anymore.

 

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Chile´s embattled Pinera promises cabinet shake-up to quell mass protests

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Saturday added a major cabinet reshuffle to a growing list of reforms he has promised to tame inequality and quell mass protests that have rocked the South American nation.

One million Chileans march in Santiago, city grinds to halt

As many as a million Chileans protested peacefully late into the evening on Friday in the capital Santiago in the biggest rallies yet since violence broke out a week ago over entrenched inequality in the South American nation.

Chile protesters block access to lithium operations: local leader

Protesters from indigenous communities around Chile's Atacama salt flats, among the world's richest reserves of lithium, have blocked access to lithium operations amid nationwide rallies over inequality, a local leader said

Chile says 'no chance' of riots derailing APEC, U.N. climate meet in Santiago
SANTIAGO Oct. 24, 2019 - Chile, grappling with violent protests that rocked the capital Santiago for days, will not let the riots derail plans to host two major global meetings in coming months, Foreign Minister Teodoro Ribera said on Thursday.

He said that there was “no chance” of calling off the Nov. 16-17 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit or the United Nations climate change conference COP25 in December.

 

[ApotheosisMMC.]

(video)

“La marcha más grande de Chile”: Más de un millón de personas llegó a Plaza Italia

Chilenos de todos lados de la capital llegaron al icónico lugar para manifestarse contra las desigualdades del país, logrando una histórica adhesión.

www.encancha.cl

last night there has been no curfew in reaction to the great peaceful march ... it is evaluated to remove the state of emergency also as things develop, there have been excesses anyway during the night and shooting, but in smaller quantities ... We will have to see how things evolve.

 

[Windmill knight]

RT Spanish is reporting a fire at a mall in the center of Santiago. This happened some streets from a demonstration that included clashes with the police. (More videos in the link.)

In fact, there's been more than one. The article adds that on the 19th there was another fire at a supermarket in San Bernardo, and on the 20th there was another at a clothes factory in Renca, north of Santiago.

 

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Pinera has fired several Cabinet members, including his Interior and Finance Minister's - probably hoping to protect his own position but it seems, Chilean's want Pinera - OUT?

Chile's Pinera fires interior, finance ministers amid unrest

President Sebastian Pinera dismissed his interior and finance ministers on Monday in a major Cabinet reshuffle aimed at taming the biggest political crisis since the country's return to democracy in 1990.

Chile Pinera faces new protests after firing ministers, courting working class

President Sebastian Pinera faced new protests on Monday after he replaced eight cabinet members including his interior and finance ministers, a house-cleaning aimed at taming the biggest political crisis since Chile's return to democracy in 1990.

Riots, vandalism follow Pinera's cabinet reshuffle in Chile, new calls for protest

Tear gas lingered in the air in downtown Santiago on Tuesday as Chilean commuters made their way to work following another night of fire, looting and riots, in a sign that a cabinet reshuffle by President Sebastian Pinera was still not enough.

Support for Chile's Pinera lowest for president since Pinochet era: poll

Support for Chile's Sebastian Pinera has plunged to just 14% amid recent unrest, according to a poll published on Sunday, the lowest approval rating for a Chilean president since the country's return to democracy three decades ago.

 

[mabar]

Be safe over there, things look quite complicated.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10157088818719011

Please do not miss this material. Chilean security forces mount riots (barricades, pickets, bank fires, supermarkets, etc.) to legitimize repression.--using deepl

https://twitter.com/x/status/1189272742153129990

This isn't on TV. There is a lawyer who can tell me if the Carabineros can defend themselves in these cases. What about human rights? Who cares about them?--using deepl

https://twitter.com/x/status/1189354085310484482

Last updated] Figures compiled directly by the INDH in observations of demonstrations, police stations and health centers from October 17 until today at 21:30 hours.
Total de Acciones Judiciales (Total Judicial Actions) 138
Personas detenidas (Persons detained) 3712
Heridas en hospitales (Hospital injuries) 1233
Personas con heridas oculares (people with eye injuries) 140
--using deepl

https://twitter.com/x/status/1189369493539229701

Santiago de Chile, day 12.
What about the government's weighty proposals?

 

[IronFloyd]

Be safe over there, things look quite complicated.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10157088818719011

Please do not miss this material. Chilean security forces mount riots (barricades, pickets, bank fires, supermarkets, etc.) to legitimize repression.--using deepl

https://twitter.com/x/status/1189272742153129990

This isn't on TV. There is a lawyer who can tell me if the Carabineros can defend themselves in these cases. What about human rights? Who cares about them?--using deepl

https://twitter.com/x/status/1189354085310484482

Last updated] Figures compiled directly by the INDH in observations of demonstrations, police stations and health centers from October 17 until today at 21:30 hours.
Total de Acciones Judiciales (Total Judicial Actions) 138
Personas detenidas (Persons detained) 3712
Heridas en hospitales (Hospital injuries) 1233
Personas con heridas oculares (people with eye injuries) 140
--using deepl

https://twitter.com/x/status/1189369493539229701

Santiago de Chile, day 12.
What about the government's weighty proposals?

Clearly here, there's "black hand" and again applying "shock doctrine" and false flag operations in Chile, carried out by the police and some military, it's addition to this the expected lumpen's actions and common criminals who take advantage of this to increase chaos, and as much as possible the looting, in addition to "anarchists" and furious people who see in the destruction and fires to public places, a way to "press" and bend the hand of the government (it must be said that these are the least), without knowing that it's very likely, and in light of these covert and "false flag" actions, which are playing in their favor.

The press of course exalts "terrorist" and "criminals"... the point here is that the main terrorists would be the "intelligence" actions... in conjunction with the government? that should be the question, and I think so. To understand it a bit, I must say that President Piñera's reaction to the first "attacks" was very similar to George W Bush after the twin towers attack, and moreover, there are many similarities between both leaders. People make fun of the stupidities that he speaks and do, starting with the "cabinet change" that people took as a mockery.

In conclusion, the scene looks pretty black here.

 

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Breaking News

Chile will not hold APEC or COP25.

 

[angelburst29]

Chile will not hold APEC or COP25.

I would say, "Mission Accomplished" - now who is directly behind and feeding the protests? (CIA?)

Chile cancels APEC trade meet, global climate summit as protests rage

Chile has withdrawn as host of an APEC trade summit in November where the United States and China had been expected to take major steps toward ending a 15-month-old trade war that has slowed world economic growth.

Chile's APEC withdrawal caught White House by surprise: U.S. official
Chile's cancellation of the APEC trade summit in November caught the White House by surprise, a White House official told Reuters.

U.N. climate chief says exploring options for hosting climate talks after Chile withdraws

The United Nations' climate chief said the secretariat is exploring a range of options for hosting this year's round of climate talks in December after Chile withdrew from hosting.

Putin to skip APEC summit in Chile, Kremlin says

Russian President Vladimir Putin has no plans to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Chile next month, the Kremlin said on Wednesday, adding that the decision had nothing to do with the ongoing riots in Chile.

Costa Rica defers to Chile, U.N. on rescheduling climate change summit
Costa Rica's government said on Wednesday it defers to Chile, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and member states on how to proceed with the United Nations global climate change summit, COP25.

'So much damage': Chile protests flare back up as reforms fall short

Chileans took to the streets again on Tuesday, pouring by the thousands into plazas and shutting down main boulevards in a sign that government promises of reform continued to fall short.

 

[ApotheosisMMC.]

Uff, they were delaying, but here they have it to their delight, the United States accuses Russia of promoting the situation in Chile.
"there are Russian people with fake accounts on Chilean social networks fending chaos "

U.S. Accuses Russia Of Inflaming Tensions In Chile

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