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Weekly Report - 26 May 2016 (WR-16-20)
CHILE: Violent protests mar Bachelet’s address
President Michelle Bachelet’s 90-minute state-of-the-nation address on 21 May was overshadowed by violence. Hooded individuals went on the rampage in the port city of Valparaíso, hurling Molotov cocktails, looting shops, and setting public buildings ablaze. A security guard died from asphyxiation after being trapped on the second floor of a municipal building engulfed in flames. The bitter irony for Bachelet was that while she was inside the nearby congressional building vowing to proceed with an unpopular reform agenda, her government has failed to address adequately one of the public’s main concerns of growing crime rates and insecurity.
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