Episode 54: The Protests - Chile

In mid-October, 2019 protests broke out in Santiago, and spread across the nation in what quickly became the largest display of civil unrest in Chile since the Pinochet dictatorship. 

On October 25th an estimated 1.2 million people took to the streets of Santiago demanding Sebastián Piñera’s resignation. Hundreds of human rights abuse cases have been reported by individuals, human rights organizations, and medical professionals.

We speak with three guests: American filmmaker and journalist Joshua Tucker, Chilean social researcher Lorena Ortiz, and Chilean Sociologist and professor Conrado Soto Karelovic.