Chile: It Isn’t “Social Discontent,” But a Coup by The International Left

[TomSea]

Chile: It Isn’t “Social Discontent,” But a Coup by The International Left
It is obvious and evident: most Chileans are at home waiting for order to be restored. They are not in the streets, destroying the subway, setting fires, and killing people.
Opinion Chile Featured
By Vanessa Vallejo Last updated Oct 23, 2019

 The metropolitan region of Santiago, Chile, and four other areas are in a state of emergency. A curfew has also been imposed in the city during the night.

The images of the events in Chile look like they are straight out of a horror film. Rioters have burnt metro stations and buses; they have set fire to buildings with people still inside them and plundered businesses and shops. Urban terrorism is burning the country down, and it has already killed more than ten people and injured dozens.

“We are at war against a powerful and relentless enemy that has no respect for anything or anyone and is willing to use limitless violence,” Chilean President Sebastian Piñera said on Sunday.


Read more at: https://panampost.com/vanesa-vallejo/2019/10/23/chile-coup-international-left/

I don't know who is behind Pan Am Post but it's definitely conservative and they don't ask for donations. US government maybe?

Anyway, Latin America doesn't seem overly popular here but this author penned a very good article. What is going on there looks much more like an Insurgency than people upset about some particular issue.  Not much in the news cycle today though on Chile, maybe it is dying down.

 â€œThe Destruction in Santiago Is Not Vandalism; It’s an Insurgent War”
President Sebastian Piñera has just signed a state of the emergency decree in the provinces of Santiago and Chacabuco, and the communes of Puente Alto and San Bernardo
ChileFeaturedInterview
By Mamela Fiallo Flor Last updated Oct 24, 2019

More: https://panampost.com/mamela-fiallo/2019/10/24/destruction-santiago-insurgent-war/

[TomSea]

One million Chileans march in Santiago, city grinds to halt
By Dave Sherwood and Natalia A. Ramos Miranda

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - As many as a million Chileans protested peacefully late into the evening on Friday in the capital Santiago in the biggest rallies yet since violence broke out a week ago over entrenched inequality in the South American nation.

Protesters waving national flags, dancing, banging pots with wooden spoons and bearing placards urging political and social change streamed through the streets, walking for miles (km) from around Santiago to converge on Plaza Italia.Traffic already hobbled by truck and taxi drivers protesting road tolls ground to a standstill in Santiago as crowds shut down major avenues and public transport closed early ahead of marches that built throughout the afternoon.

By mid-evening, most had made their way home in the dark ahead of an 11 p.m. military curfew.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-protests/one-million-chileans-march-in-santiago-city-grinds-to-halt-idUSKBN1X4225

I may have spoken too soon, this apparently happened this evening, late afternoon.

[mountaineer]

Protesting "entrenched inequality" (nice value-laden phrase, Reuters)?

... Chile’s unrest is the latest in a flare-up of protests in South America and around the world - from Beirut to Barcelona - each with local triggers but also sharing underlying anger at social disparities and ruling elites.

Protests in Chile that started over a hike in public transport fares last Friday boiled into riots, arson and looting that have killed at least 17 people, injured hundreds, resulted in more than 7,000 arrests and caused more than $1.4 billion of losses to Chilean businesses.   ...

Sounds like a protest led by Occupy Wall Street/Antifa types.

[Fishrrman]

As I called it in this post a few days' back:
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,379900.msg2078953.html#msg2078953

Looks like "shades of Allende all over again"...