2019–2022 Chilean protests

2019—20 Chilean protests
2019—20 Chilean protests
Part of 2019 Latin American protests and the Latin American Spring
	Protests in Plaza Baquedano, downtown Santiago
Date	14 October 2019 – 18 March 2022; (4 years, 326 days)
Location	Chile
Caused by	Rise in public transport fares; Rising cost of living; Income inequality; Privatisation;
Goals	Reversal of public transport fares; Reforms in education, healthcare, and pension systems; Better wages, minimum wage increase; Resignation of President Sebastián Piñera; Draft a new constitution;
Methods	Protests, fare evasion, civil disobedience, rioting
Status	Ongoing Closure of the Santiago Metro on the weekend of 19–20 October; State of emergency and curfew declared on 16 regions of Chile; President Piñera announces reforms in education, healthcare, and pension systems; Cabinet reshuffle, including Interior, Finance and Economy ministries.; 2020 referendum announced.;
Parties to the civil conflict
Chilean Government Carabineros de Chile; Chilean Armed Forces;	Protesters
Lead figures
Sebastián Piñera (President of Chile); Andrés Chadwick (Former Interior and Public Security Minister); Javier Iturriaga (Chief of the Joint National Defense);
Number
	Over 3.7 million protesters
Casualties
Death(s)	Possibly 26
Injuries	11,564
Arrested	7259 (as of 27 November 2019)
Detained	~6,362 people

Many civil protests against poverty are taking place in several cities in Chile. The protests began in the capital Santiago as a campaign by secondary school students to avoid paying the Metro de Santiago subway in response to recent price hikes, leading to multiple takeovers of the city's main train stations.

This had led to open confrontations with the national police (Carabineros).

On 18 October, the situation escalated as organized bands of protesters rose in rebellion across the city, taking control of many terminals of the Santiago Metro network (part of Red) and disabling them with extensive infrastructure damage. The Metro network was disabled in its entirety.

On 18 October, President of Chile Sebastián Piñera announced a state of emergency, sending Chilean Army forces across the main regions to enforce order and crack down on the destruction of public property because of privatization.

A curfew was declared on 19 October in the Greater Santiago area,^[9] for the first time since 1987, at the end of the Pinochet dictatorship.^[10]

2019–2022 Chilean Protests Media

Fee, adjusted by inflation, of public transportation in Santiago, between 31 January 2012 and 6 October 2019, before the last increase was revoked
Demonstration and barricades in downtown Concepción on 21 October
Protesters in Plaza Baquedano on 22 October
Protesters in Plaza Baquedano on 8 November
Poster of the Negro Matapacos dog symbol of social protests in Chile.
State of emergency and curfew State of emergency