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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 13 March 2020

CHILE: Protests back with a bang

Chilean protesters kept their word [WR-20-09] as protest actions in the first 11 days of March, following the summer break, were of a similar magnitude and drew as much zeal as when unrest first broke out in October 2019. Despite the many measures taken by President Sebastián Piñera to try to placate the protesters, his administration is not meeting with success, and is instead presiding over growing tensions between the security forces and protesters as compelling evidence of excessive use of force, human rights violations, and head-targeting stacks up.

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