Weekly Report - 20 February 2020 (WR-20-07)

Several thousand people took part in rival demonstrations in different parts of Santiago on 15 February. One group of protesters in the capital city’s most affluent neighbourhood of Las Condes demonstrated in favour of retaining Chile’s current constitution ahead of a plebiscite on the issue on 26 April this year. Another group of protesters gathered several kilometres further west in Plaza Italia to make a series of social demands to combat social inequality in Chile, among which is the drafting of a new constitution to replace the current version which dates back to 1980 during the military dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).