Product of popular fatigue in Chile due to social injustices, political corruption and the impudence of various governments continuing building a country that only benefits a few, citizens took out their most rebellious side. Santiago burned like never before. Government and media have dodged the issue and we have again heard the same "wild card" of this last times: "security" to address the issue, decreeing state security law and curfew along with a military intervention.
The armed forces flooded the streets and reminded us of the most painful years in our history.
Chile has become blind and deaf to violence and because of violence.
This is the product of situations that surreptitiously have been writing our history, but which are now masked off.
Santiago has become the meeting place for all those who feel disappointed by a country that turned its back on them, that left them orphans and which has not wanted to recognize true facts.
It is this Santiago that suffers today; daily confrontation between students and state, between workers and state, between minorities and state, even between teachers and state and has gone from being a beautiful tourist postcard to a space of rebellion and repression, commitment and indifference.
This is Santiago´s present: that of rebels and that of deaf ears, that of the fights and that of bewilderment...
