Chile, new clashes in front of the Government Palace: burned hotels and shopping centers

The president, after the oceanic and peaceful demonstration of last Friday (almost two million people took part in what has already become known as "the greatest march ever"), had decided to remove the curfew and declare that the state of emergency. From a political point of view, he announced an important government reshuffle and the inauguration of a "social agenda" to meet the demands of the population. The reshuffle was formalized yesterday, eight ministers were blown up.However, the move did not achieve the desired result. Indeed, it was considered a totally insufficient measure by the protesters. Both from the peaceful ones that have gathered in the thousands plaza Italy just as the government swore at la Moneda; both from the violent ones that, involuntarily covered by the peaceful procession, devastated the city again trying to reach the government building.

"Pinera must go away," explained Emilio, a 23-year-old law student, one of the protesters in plaza Italy – He leaves, then we start thinking about politics. It must have respect for the people: first it repressed the square with a curfew and i carabineros, then he criminalized her saying she was at war with an enemy ready for anything, and now she wants to exploit us to hunt four puppets and change them with four other puppets. To change everything in order not to change anything is said, isn't it? The truth is that Pinera has a precise political responsibility for all this: if he has to assume it ".

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The impression is that, having started as a form of protest against the increase in the cost of the metro ticket, which grew as a sort of battle for a new constitution, the Santiago war is transforming itself from day to day into a sort of redde rationem of the people against the elite. A war fueled also by the brutal methods adopted by carabineros and the military in recent days, with many cases of torture and sexual violence reported by those arrested in barracks throughout the country.

Late in the evening, the new government spokesman, Karla Rubilar (also appointed as part of the reshuffle) intervened to formally rule out "the return of the curfew and the state of emergency". La Rubilar tried to avoid the tones used a week ago by Pinera when he said that "the country was at war" but tried to distinguish between the square on Friday and that of last night: "That on Friday was a just and peaceful march Instead, this was called Saturday as "the march of the guerrillas" and had the sole objective of destroying everything. We are talking about a minority of people, people that we will fight with all our strength, with the carabineros, with the proxy, with the police of investigation. And in the end we will win, we will identify them and we will condemn them. And in this regard I launch an appeal to all political forces that condemn all forms of violence ".

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