From a metro ticket, to a new constitution

  • Dates
    2019 - Ongoing
  • Author
  • Locations Chile, Santiago Metropolitan

From the metro ticket to a new constitution.

In October, students from Chile organized to protest against the rise in public transport, these manifestations were prolonged over time as the population began to demand lawsuits against the inequality established by the neo-liberal economic model of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

Curfew, violence, mass protests, police abuse, state violence and human rights violations frame Chile’s social outbreak that has not yet ended.

So far, government responses have been deficient and repressive with citizens.

To date there are 27 dead and 3583 injured, 359 civilians injured with an eye burst because of steel pellets, two of them completely blind. Various human rights associations such as International Amnesty and Human Rights Watch have

described the government’s response as “really worrying”.

© Matias Cortez - chilean police
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chilean police

© Matias Cortez - nurse brigade helping protesters
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nurse brigade helping protesters

© Matias Cortez - nurse brigade helping protesters
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nurse brigade helping protesters

© Matias Cortez - family runing away from the police gas car
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family runing away from the police gas car

© Matias Cortez - Chilean police
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Chilean police

© Matias Cortez - chilean police
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chilean police

© Matias Cortez - man fainted by tear gas
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man fainted by tear gas

© Matias Cortez - demonstrators in the frontline resisting water canyon
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demonstrators in the frontline resisting water canyon

© Matias Cortez - demonstrators in the frontline resisting water canyon
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demonstrators in the frontline resisting water canyon

© Matias Cortez - man kicking out a tear bomb gas
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man kicking out a tear bomb gas

© Matias Cortez - October 18th, first night of the social outbreak
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October 18th, first night of the social outbreak

© Matias Cortez - demonstrators in the frontline
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demonstrators in the frontline

© Matias Cortez - Louder than everything else
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Louder than everything else

© Matias Cortez - group of demonstrators helping firefighters
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group of demonstrators helping firefighters

© Matias Cortez - a man cover himself with bicarbonated water because of the tear gas
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a man cover himself with bicarbonated water because of the tear gas

© Matias Cortez - Man getting hit by tear bomb shoot
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Man getting hit by tear bomb shoot

© Matias Cortez - October 18th, first night of the social outbreak
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October 18th, first night of the social outbreak

© Matias Cortez - Demonstrator looking for a rubber bullet in one leg
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Demonstrator looking for a rubber bullet in one leg

© Matias Cortez - A demonstrator rises a black Chilean flag
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A demonstrator rises a black Chilean flag

© Matias Cortez - Priests Rapists
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Priests Rapists

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