No tenemos miedo, the popular rebellion in Chile

"It's not for the 30 pesos, it's for the 30 years".

This is the phrase that triggered a popular rebellion in Chile just two years ago, of which too little is still spoken.

It was the straw that broke the camel's back, it was October 18, 2019, and it was certainly not the negligible increase in the cost of the bus ticket, but the anger of those who had gone from dictatorship to savage neoliberalism.

The boys then jumped the turnstiles and continue to do so, "brave, fearless, they are an example of great beauty", said in October last year the director Manuele Franceschini at the Rome Festival talking about his documentary NO TENEMOS MIEDO, made with Lucky Red and with the patronage of Amnesty International.

The film, which will have an itinerant distribution for evenings-events (tonight it is the turn of the Troisi Cinema in Rome), has the support of Amnesty Italia and, among the testimonies, that of Leonardo Alejandro Villar Aguilar, photographer who talks about La Primera Linea, or the spontaneous formation of young people of all backgrounds who, armed with satellite dishes and sling like David against Goliath, led the social protests putting themselves at great risk for the violent reactions of the Carabineros.

In the face of "this fearless youth, one cannot but be fascinated" explained Franceschini, who returned to Italy after 40 years in South America, twelve of which in Chile. "It is difficult to be boys there, sheltered in the best possible way, ready to sacrifice. I went around and told them I was really shaken ",

In NO TENEMOS MIEDO the director with his mini troupe had the courage to infiltrate the Protestants by filming the urban warfare.

And all this while the people crowded Plaza Italia, the zero zone of Chilean demonstrations, later renamed Plaza de la Dignidad, with a very brutal repression by the Chilean police.

A curiosity.

The government of Gabriel Boric begins today in Chile, the youngest president in the history of the country - he is only 36 years old - and a representative of that left that emerged with the student movement of 2011 and then with the social protests against the profound inequalities that broke out in Chile. October 2019. In these first months of his mandate there will be coexistence with the constituent assembly, which is working intensely to present a proposal for a constitution.

At least until this moment,