{"id":60471,"date":"2020-01-31T17:07:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T09:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60471"},"modified":"2020-01-31T17:07:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T09:07:07","slug":"two-dead-as-new-wave-of-chile-protests-break-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60471","title":{"rendered":"Two dead as new wave of Chile protests break out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/assets.nst.com.my\/images\/articles\/chile_1_1580447827.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">A demonstrator returns a tear gas canister fired by the security forces during a protest against Chile&#8217;s government in Valparaiso<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SANTIAGO, Jan 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A young man has died after being hit by a hijacked bus in Santiago, the second fatality in renewed unrest in the Chilean capital, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Transantiago bus that hit the 22-year-old, who died in hospital early on Thursday, had been stolen moments earlier by masked assailants, the Carabineros national police said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man had been protesting at a barricade in the south of the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protesters at the scene severely beat the man who was behind the wheel, inflicting serious injuries, and set fire to the bus, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than three months of protests in Chile have left at least 30 people dead, at times bringing the South American country to a standstill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday night, a fan of Santiago-based football team Colo Colo died after he was hit by a police van during clashes between supporters and security forces following a local match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colo Colo fans held a protest on Wednesday over the death, burning barricades in the streets around their team\u2019s stadium and also torching the local metro station, a police station and a shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protest was led by the Garra Blanca group, one of a number of fan groups known as barra bravas that are akin to Europe\u2019s football hooligans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also have joined in protests against President Sebastian Pinera while ordinary fans have also sung songs at matches against the ruling party and its leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the south of Santiago, a local government office was torched and at least three supermarkets looted in the latest flare-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two police stations elsewhere in Santiago were attacked while violence also broke out in the towns of Valparaiso, in the centre, and Concepcion in the south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unrest broke out on Oct 18 initially against a modest hike in metro fares in Santiago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It quickly mushroomed into wider protests against social inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pinera has launched a raft of measures to try to quell the unrest including a raise in the minimum wage and state pensions, and health reforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will also hold a referendum in April on changing the dictatorship-era constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But while the frequency and intensity of protests have subsided since October, they have continued regularly nonetheless. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A demonstrator returns a tear gas canister fired by the security forces during a protest against Chile&#8217;s government in Valparaiso SANTIAGO, Jan 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A young man has died after being hit by a hijacked bus in Santiago, the second fatality in renewed unrest in the Chilean capital, police said. The Transantiago bus that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}