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State of emergency in Santiago https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1185372504921116674?s=20
Police doing what they usually do. https://twitter.com/PiensaPrensa/status/1185307946147860481?s=20
Cacerolazo in response to Piñera's announcement of state of emergency. https://twitter.com/elmostrador/status/1185400817165225984?s=20
#Chile: the government limited constitutional guarantees and called the army amid massive protests against transport tariffs. El País, acting as a parody of themselves, blames left and right. https://twitter.com/el_pais/status/1185405053840121856?s=20
Move on, nothing to see here. Just the army patrolling #Chile's capital. Perfectly normal. https://twitter.com/Ejercito_Chile/status/1185505373094137856?s=20
The Venezuelan opposition never disappoints. Protesters are terrorists, just like in #Ecuador, #Peru and #Spain. All linked to Maduro. Oh, and the UN is a 'latrine that approves the bastard interests of the world left' (this seems a tweet away from the Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy)
The army in the streets today. https://twitter.com/PiensaPrensa/status/1185571537266659328?s=20
#Chile: it's not just about the subway fares. It's about the Pinochet constitution, Education, Health, Pensions, Water, Electricity, Climate, Fuel, Military/businesses stealing, Poverty, Inequality, Dignity. https://twitter.com/FLagos_Neumann/status/1185562505717964800?s=20
"Piñera es el pato de la boda de un proceso largo que involucra a toda la clase política. Porque las políticas post dictadura no hacen diferencia entre aquellos socialdemócratas de la tercera vía, neoliberales y pinochetistas" https://twitter.com/InfoNodal/status/1185590177772654593?s=19
Improvised 'oficialista' summit this morning: ministers, pro-Piñera deputies, and mayors called in for a meeting. Piñera seeking a sign of support he can use as a show of force ahead of more protests against neoliberal 'reforms'. https://www.latercera.com/politica/noticia/pinera-convoca-cumbre-oficialista-la-moneda-abordar-estado-emergencia-disturbios/868856/
Meanwhile, right outside La Moneda, new cacerolazo https://twitter.com/PiensaPrensa/status/1185612008357597185?s=20
Neoliberal right wing government doing what they do: insult the people suffering their IMF packages and 'reforms' https://twitter.com/InterferenciaCL/status/1185540233733066752?s=20
Just like Moreno accepted to replace part of his paquetazo decree (the new one will likely be as bad) but kept the rest of the IMF program, Piñera wants to 'mitigate the impact of the rise of metro fares'. But this is not just about metro fares. https://twitter.com/EFEnoticias/status/1185639011227975684?s=20
People vs. Piñera's tanks https://twitter.com/CNNChile/status/1185646249304887296?s=20
Protests have extended to Valparaíso https://twitter.com/elmartutino/status/1185688936779268097?s=20
Army deployed in Valparaíso https://twitter.com/JorgeSharp/status/1185748666130272256?s=20
State of emergency https://twitter.com/EFEnoticias/status/1185746292397559808?s=20
Protests and state of emergency extended pretty much all over #Chile https://twitter.com/Cooperativa/status/1185772067406397442?s=20
Santiago yesterday https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1185756272223834114?s=20
Meanwhile, the Venezuelan opposition seeing Maduro and Cuba's hand again. Omnipotent Venezuela and Cuba. https://twitter.com/JulioBorges/status/1185590850987974657?s=20
Following exactly the same steps Lenín Moreno followed when #Ecuador protested against neoliberal 'reforms', after state of emergency, curfew in the capital. https://twitter.com/elmostrador/status/1185688810123878401?s=20
Army deployed in the streets, state of emergency, criminalize the protests and revoking the one thing that supposedly caused the spark: 883 in #Ecuador, subway fare increase in #Chile. But it's not just about the subway fares. https://twitter.com/CNNChile/status/1185676355352059904?s=20
Celebratory cacerolazo (as protests elsewhere continue) https://twitter.com/AgenciaElVigia/status/1185710145776619525?s=20
More army coming https://twitter.com/CHVNoticias/status/1185768327312003073?s=20
"Lo cierto es que el alza del pasaje del Metro ha funcionado como un verdadero catalizador y gatillante del descontento social ante el conjunto de derechos sociales y humanos inexistentes en #Chile" https://www.nodal.am/2019/10/chile-cuadro-de-situacion-por-andres-figueroa-cornejo-politika/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
"Fue una protesta lenta, que subió en intensidad gradualmente, con muchos momentos para reaccionar. Pero no hubo más que dos respuestas: la tecnocracia y la represión". https://www.latercera.com/opinion/noticia/la-ciudad-la-furia/869519/
From earlier this week, right before the protests began. Here's president Piñera comparing himself with Ulysses. Needless to say, the FT article looks like Piñera PR. https://www.df.cl/noticias/internacional/politica/pinera-conversa-con-financial-times-estamos-dispuestos-a-hacer-todo/2019-10-17/075829.html
After last night's riots. Damage https://twitter.com/Cooperativa/status/1185905530054807553?s=20
Three people dead. https://twitter.com/biobio/status/1185775049627852803?s=20
And army rolling in Santiago. https://twitter.com/mariapaz_lopezc/status/1185902712522756096?s=20
'We've made a huge effort to make sure tomorrow is a normal day'. Yeah, have the army repress anyone they find in the streets. https://twitter.com/latercera/status/1186095284348211200?s=20
'We're at war with a powerful enemy willing to use force with no limit'. They're not the ones rolling in tanks down Santiago. Piñera is lying, just like those claiming this is just about subway fares are. https://twitter.com/EPinternacional/status/1186118884358852608?s=20
'We're not at war. The people are angry after years of abuse' https://twitter.com/Cooperativa/status/1186138800554201088?s=20
Working to make 'tomorrow a normal day' Piñera style https://twitter.com/PiensaPrensa/status/1186046868658278402?s=20
Main union of private mining industries calls for strike. https://twitter.com/AlinaDuarte_/status/1186137387358969856?s=20
Piñera: 'we're at war'.
Piñera's army https://twitter.com/ActualidadRT/status/1186289032956973056?s=20
Piñera's army https://twitter.com/ActualidadRT/status/1186289032956973056?s=20
Did they plan this setting thinking: I gotta have more army than Moreno did last week? https://twitter.com/GBabeuf/status/1186289406673588224?s=20
Miners and dockers on strike https://twitter.com/laradiodelsur/status/1186291831434338307?s=20
11 people killed so far. https://www.noticias24.com/internacionales/noticia/151557/aumentan-a-11-los-fallecidos-por-estallido-social-en-chile-segun-autoridades-locales/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Chicago Boys Do Chile https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/1186228580457570305?s=20
She speaks. It's taken her forever to come up with these words that really say nothing at all, though. https://twitter.com/latercera/status/1186300144611921920?s=20
Maybe she knows something about this too: "35 years of privatized pensions have led to a massive accumulation and concentration of capital/profits in the hands of the pension fund administrators and insufficient and unequal pensions for the retirees" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21699763.2016.1148623
Meanwhile, curfew extended to even more areas https://twitter.com/biobio/status/1186351830651027456?s=20
