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2019 Chile protest among violent clashes<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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As Chileans prepare to vote in a first round of presidential elections Sunday, this is a timeline since the start of the bloody protests in 2019 against inequality that led to a process to rewrite the country’s dictatorship-era constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– 2019: Violent clashes –<\/strong> Right-wing President Sebastian Pinera declares a state of emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Soldiers are deployed in the city the following day for the first time since the end of the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pinera — a billionaire — suspends the ticket price hike but protests and clashes continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – ‘Chile is awake’ <\/strong>– About 30 people die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pinera apologizes and announces more social spending on October 22, but a general strike begins with leaders demanding the military return to barracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After some 1.2 million Chileans take to the streets in Santiago on October 25, the curfew and state of emergency are lifted and Pinera reshuffles his cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the street movement continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In November, Chile gives up hosting the APEC Asia Pacific economic summit and later the COP25 climate conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – Constitutional referendum –<\/strong> The government follows this up in early December with a $5.5-billion social plan, and a month later the president announces reforms of the health system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations, meanwhile, denounces multiple rights violations by police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – 2020: New clashes –<\/strong> Violence erupts again on February 23 at Vina del Mar near Valparaiso, and then in early March in several other towns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The president announces police reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – Virus, referendum put off –<\/strong> The president carries out a fifth cabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – ‘Yes’ to new constitution –<\/strong> – 2021: More delays – Indigenous leader –<\/strong> Elisa Loncon, an academic from the indigenous Mapuche community, is elected to head the body which has a year to draw up a new constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – New president –<\/strong> Seven candidates are vying to replace Pinera in Sunday’s poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ______________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n By AFP Reuters2019 Chile protest among violent clashes By AFP SANTIAGOPetroleumworld 11 19 2021 As Chileans prepare to vote in a first round of presidential elections Sunday, this is a timeline since the start of the bloody protests in 2019 against inequality that led to a process to rewrite the country’s dictatorship-era constitution. – 2019: Violent clashes …<\/p>\n
Protests in Chile’s capital, Santiago, against a rise in metro fares on October 18, 2019 escalate into clashes between police and demonstrators angry at gaping social inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The state of emergency is extended to other regions as protests spread with people chanting: \u00abChile is awake.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a breakthrough on November 15, lawmakers agree to a key opposition demand for a referendum on replacing Chile’s Pinochet-era constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After a period of calm despite demonstrations every Friday in Santiago, new clashes in late January 2020 turn deadly, with four people killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chile declares a \u00abnational disaster\u00bb in mid-March due to the pandemic, with protests paused and a referendum, originally scheduled for April, postponed until October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On October 25, Chileans vote by nearly four to one (79 percent) for a new constitution be drawn up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In late March 2021, Chile locks down four-fifths of its population as the virus surges again. The election of the constituent assembly charged with revising the constitution is put off to mid-May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A third of newly elected members of the constitutional convention are independents, with no group winning a majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second anniversary of the October protests — in the middle of the presidential campaign — is marked by clashes and two new deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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