Violent protests against government continue in Chile hours before presidential election

The of them camps are perfectly running. Water cannons, tear gas, rifle armored vehicles encirclement of hotbeds of contestation, when, protesters side, the orchestra shows the direction of travel. On the eve of a very indecisive presidential election in Chile, a radical fringe of demonstrators mobilized to demand the release of several dozen prisoners. Young people arrested in October 2019 at the height of the social revolt that the Chilean authorities still do not want to release.

Friday, November 19, Santiago was, like every week, the scene of clashes between police and demonstrators. The first line is responsible for setting fire to the barricades, a few hundred meters from the presidential palace. “We get high every day for shitty wages. Look, look, all those who demonstrate, the grandparents, the children, they should be at home and rest but why are they here? Because the state does not do nothing for them. The only thing they do is hit us “, says a protester.

The indignation of a Chilean youth which no longer supports the old system of the dictatorship of General Pinochet. Bilma observes the demonstrators. “Chile lives in a chaos that the world does not want to see. We were the laboratory of neo-liberalism. They put the population to sleep and today we have a fascist candidate who is about to be elected, that is. is horrible. “ On the eve of the election, it was the far-right candidate José Antonio Kast who led the polls.