Posted on 10/20/2019 10:13:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Karla Rubilar said authorities "are collecting more details" on the deaths -- the first since demonstrations broke out nearly a week ago over a hike in public transport costs.
The unrest has forced Chile's military to issue a curfew for the entire Santiago metropolitan region until 7:00 a.m. local time (6:00 a.m. ET) on Sunday, General Javier Iturriago del Campo confirmed late Saturday.
Protests began in Santiago after the government proposed increasing the price of Metro tickets. Chilean President Sebastian Piñera announced Saturday that ministers will suspend the plan, after declaring a state of emergency the previous day.
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Looters?
There is a well organized hard core 5% Communist voting block that stirs up all this mess, hope they get CRUSHED! Communist “youths” and “students”..... Useful tools!
“Looters?”
Probably Communists. Lesson here: It doesn’t do any long-term good to purge a country of Communists, as Chile did in 1973, just to allow them to seep back into positions of power.
Now they have a left wing almost as bad as our DNC.
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