{"id":77655,"date":"2020-10-20T09:16:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T03:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-487847-2906045.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=77655"},"modified":"2020-10-20T09:16:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T03:46:34","slug":"churches-set-ablaze-chile-protests-turn-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/2020\/10\/20\/churches-set-ablaze-chile-protests-turn-violent\/","title":{"rendered":"Churches set ablaze as Chile protests turn violent."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"l-col l-col--8--centered\">\n<div class=\"gallery-content wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content\">\n<p>Two churches were torched as tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered on Sunday in a central Santiago square to mark the anniversary of a protest movement that broke out last year demanding greater equality in Chile.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration comes just a week before Chileans vote in a referendum on whether to replace the dictatorship-era constitution, one of the key demands when the protest movement began on October 18 last year.<\/p>\n<p>While the morning brought a largely festive atmosphere to the protests at Plaza Italia, there were several incidents of violence, looting and vandalism in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>One church close to Plaza Italia was burned to the ground as hooded protesters cheered, while a second place of worship was looted and also suffered fire damage.<\/p>\n<p>For Victor Hugo de la Fuente, a journalist and manager at the Chilean edition of Le Monde Diplomatique, happiness reigned amongst protesters \u201cdue to the possibility of progressing and achieving a fairer and more democratic Chile\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators also called for their countrymen to vote to \u201capprove\u201d the proposed constitutional change.<\/p>\n<p data-inc=\"1\">The government of President Sebastian Pinera, one of the protesters\u2019 main targets, called on demonstrators to be peaceful and to respect coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The epidemic has left 13,600 Chileans dead with more than 491,000 infected.<\/p>\n<p>Protests broke out a year ago initially as a response to a hike in metro fares, before mushrooming into a general demonstration against inequality and the government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"l-col l-col--text-center l-col--10--centered\">\n<figure class=\"gallery-image\">\n<div class=\"react_lightgallery_item\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two churches were torched as tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered on Sunday in a central Santiago square to mark the anniversary of a protest movement that broke out last year demanding greater equality in Chile. The demonstration comes just a week before Chileans vote in a referendum on whether to replace the dictatorship-era constitution, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}