Piñera, Public Transit, and Protest: How 30 Pesos Bought the Chilean “Oasis” Its Most Violent Weekend of Social Upheaval Since Pinochet’s Dictatorship

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–Written by Aaron Freeman—

As the moniker popularized in national and international social and news media succinctly describes, on the 18th of October, Chile awoke. Areas of Chile became militarized for the first time since the dictatorship after what began as a protest of mostly students in the capital, jumping the turnstiles of the Santiago metro to avoid paying the fare, which the government had increased by 30 pesos, and exploded into a broad and impactful social upheaval that continues to shake Chile to its core.

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