The protests represent the greatest challenge to a Chilean government since dictator Augusto Pinochet faced demonstrations and a referendum that ended his regime nearly 30 years ago
SANTIAGO, Chile—The rise in the subway fare was small, Natalia Cortez said, but came on top of what she called other indignities: shoddy schools and meager pensions, rising prices and a low minimum wage. So, she has been among the hundreds of thousands of protesters surging into the streets for days to shake President Sebastian Piñera’s center-right government.
“We’re all living in debt,” said the 28-year-old kindergarten teacher. “We have to pay higher electricity bills, water bills, all the services. And we just don’t make...
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