And then he called the military out to restore order. And what people heard when he said that was essentially that his government considered itself at war with the Chilean people who were protesting in the street. he said - archived recording (sebastián piñera) But then, when that didn’t quell the protests - archived recording archived recording (sebastián piñera)Īnd then Piñera announced that they would cancel the subway fare increase. The Chilean president, Sebastian Piñera, he said - archived recording (sebastián piñera) annie brownĪnd what does the government do? archived recording (sebastián piñera) And that created this growing anger and a sense that the entire system might be illegitimate, that it wasn’t just about distribution of money, but about fundamental fairness and who the government was working for and who it was taking for granted.
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And on top of that, there was a series of scandals involving either corruption or tax evasion by wealthy and powerful Chileans. It’s become sort of the crucial piece of evidence for a lot of people that the government isn’t working for them, that it’s not aware of their lives and it’s not trying to solve problems for ordinary people. So the fact that people in Chile are upset about the subway fare, this small increase in the subway fare, is really a marker, a sign that there’s something much deeper happening in Chile. Something like an increase in subway fares, if you’re already really worried about basic necessities and then you have to pay that multiple times a day, it makes it just feel inescapable. So food, public transportation, the price of gas is often a big one. Something that I’ve heard a lot as I cover protests and revolutions around the world is that they’re often sparked by a small increase in the price of daily necessities. And instead of getting it, here they were being squeezed further. So the problem is not the amount of money itself, necessarily, but the feeling that they already really needed help from the government. archived recordingĪmanda, what is driving these protests? Because it seems like the magnitude of them no longer matches the thing they were originally about, which was this 30-peso fare hike. Suddenly, there was just this general sense that things were completely out of control and really dangerous. The demonstrations have closed schools, shut down transportation, and caused several stores and businesses to temporarily close. They did what some have estimated to be billions of dollars of damage to the metro system in Santiago. Subways, buses and high-rise buildings were set on fire. archived recording 3Īccording to the government, nearly 20 people have been killed in the clashes, and Chile’s human rights - amanda taubĪnd protesters began to burn metro stations. archived recording 2Ī tense week in Chile after violent protests broke out. In Chile, student-led protests turned deadly this weekend. archived recordingīut then, around the end of the second week of protests - archived recording
archived recordingĬhile has had large protests in recent years. And there are a lot of university students in Santiago. where they started out by jumping turnstiles or holding gates open for people so they could avoid paying the metro fares altogether. Soon after the fare was announced, it was actually high school students in the center of Santiago who first started this kind of civil disobedience protest movement - archived recording But for ordinary Chileans, who were already really struggling to make ends meet, it was just too much to bear. archived recordingĪnd it was 30 pesos, which might not sound like a lot. On October 6, the Chilean government announced that there was going to be an increase in the fares for the public transportation system, the metro system in Santiago.
What was going on in Chile? archived recording So Amanda Taub, let’s start back at the beginning of last month. “The Daily”‘s Annie Brown speaks to our colleague Amanda Taub about why, in Chile, capitalism itself is now on trial. Today: Chile’s free-market reforms have been celebrated as an economic success story - until they weren’t. michael barbaroįrom The New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. Nearly 50 years later, it’s a nation blighted by staggering inequality - and vast protests.
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Transcript Listen to ‘The Daily’: Capitalism on Trial in Chile Hosted by Michael Barbaro produced by Adizah Eghan, Jazmín Aguilera and Clare Toeniskoetter with help from Michael Simon Johnson and Neena Pathak edited by Larissa Anderson America exported its economic system to the South American country after a coup.
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