Protests in the Santiago metro for the increase in the ticket

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(CNN Spanish) - This Friday was the fifth day of citizen protests in different stations of the Santiago de Chile Metro, which have ended with destruction of public infrastructure, clashes with the police and injured people. The reason ?: the rise in the passage applied by the Government for about 30 Chilean pesos, reaching a maximum of approximately 1.19 dollars.

Through social networks, different actors have called on the population not to pay the ticket at the time of taking the underground transport, which was increased by a panel of experts under the argument of the rise in the price of the dollar and oil, Inter alia. Demonstrators, meanwhile, accuse that the minimum wage remains at about $ 420, which would imply an expense of almost $ 47 a month just to get to and from work using the Metro.

“One thing is to manifest and another thing is the vandalism we have observed. The subway is vital for all the inhabitants of the Metropolitan Region.

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This desire for all this is not protest, it is crime. We all have the right to express ourselves, but not to destroy, ”said the President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, ensuring that“ people who attacked police and destroyed, will have to face justice. We cannot tolerate that there is a group that believes it has the right to destroy public property. ”

Social discontent has been especially noticeable in secondary students, who were the first to drive mobilizations even though they maintain their preferential fare in the Metro. "This is the time that the government takes the police from the stations and puts workers and students on a table to talk," said the president of the Federation of Trade Unions of the Santiago Metro, Eric Campos, adding that "all we know that in this government the fare has grown much more than during the past government, since mistakes have been made such as buying electric buses without bidding bases, which obviously increases the value of the ticket ”.

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At the moment, the government maintains a police contingent at a fixed point in several Metro stations to avoid the evasion of the tickets, while the protesters say they will continue to protest.

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