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Security & Strategic Review - March 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)
CHILE: Violent protests in Aysén contained by concessions
By late March the government of President Sebastián Piñera had managed to contain through negotiation a wave of increasingly violent social protests that had swept through the southern region of Aysén, which even the deployment of contingents of Carabineros and recourse to the state security law had failed to stem. Protest actions were called off after the government made a series of concessions and persuaded the protesters — a coalition of small-scale fishermen, unions, environmentalists and social organisations — to sort out their various demands through separate ‘tables’.
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