A Chilean prosecutor on Wednesday said he would seek court approval to investiga...
Demonstrators take part in a protest at Providencia, a wealthy neighborhood, in Santiago, Chile November 6, 2019. REUTERS/Jorge silva
One related to the actions of 12 police officers in Nunoa, a bohemian suburb of Santiago, where protesters defied a curfew to conduct successive nights of large but mainly peaceful demonstrations in a central square, a spokesman for Guerra told Reuters without providing further details. Chile’s worst unrest since the end of Augusto Pinochet’s 1973-1990 dictatorship has caused at least 23 deaths, more than 7,000 detentions, and injuries to 1,659 protesters and 800 police officers, according to authorities and rights groups.
“This president is committed to total respect for human rights at all times and in all circumstances,” the center-right Pinera said from La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago. He rejected criticism on social media that his ministers have only visited injured police, not protesters, saying he would visit demonstrators in the coming days.Protests continued on Wednesday. A truck blockade of some major highways over high road tolls caused commuter chaos.
Chile’s finance minister told the congressional budgetary committee on Wednesday that the government would draw $600 million from a sovereign wealth fund to finance the social plan.
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