Chile Explodes: Expensive Climate Policies Spark Mass Riots, Just Like the Yellow Vest Protests in F

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Chile Explodes: Expensive Climate Policies Spark Mass Riots, Just Like the Yellow Vest Protests in France

    Date: 26/10/19
    James Taylor, The Epoch Times

Climate activists and the United Nations are suffering a major black eye this week as protests and riots resulting from high energy prices have erupted in Santiago, Chile.
 

Chile, which is hosting a major U.N. climate conference in December, earned praise from climate activists for recently imposing a carbon dioxide tax on conventional energy sources and switching the Santiago Metro system to renewable power. Now, the people of Chile are rising up and firing a shot across the bow of other nations considering similar energy taxes and expensive renewable energy programs.

On Friday, protesters took to the streets throughout Santiago in response to Metro fare hikes. The protests soon spread to other cities and led to rioting and at least five reported deaths. The Chilean government and the legacy media blamed the fare hikes on rising oil prices. But that is not true.

https://www.thegwpf.com/expensive-climate-policies-sparked-the-chile-riots-just-like-the-yellow-vest-protests-in-france/

[Fishrrman]

The communist/leftists, still smarting from Allende's expulsion, are giving it another try...

[thackney]

...Pinera's address has done little to calm the protests, which began over a now-suspended price hike for subway tickets in Santiago but have since expanded, revealing deep-seated anger among ordinary Chileans who feel they have been excluded from the nation's economic rise.

Many are frustrated over economic inequalities, living costs and rising debt in a country that remains among the most prosperous and stable in Latin America....

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/23/americas/chile-pinera-apology-unrest-intl-hnk/index.html