Thousands of Chileans gathered in the central square of the capital, Santiago, on Sunday, clanging pots, cheering and chanting to mark the one-year anniversary of mass protests over inequality that left more than 30 dead and thousands injured.
Protesters gathered early in the day in largely peaceful rallies downtown under bright, cloudless skies of the Southern Hemisphere spring. Many touted signs and brightly colored homemade banners calling for a “yes” vote next Sunday in a referendum over whether to scrap the country’s dicatatorship-era Constitution, a key demand of the 2019 protests.
By late afternoon on Sunday, Santiago’s Plaza Italia had begun to fill but the protest was markedly smaller, and more pacific, than the largest of last year’s rallies. Chile’s police, which have come under fire by human rights groups for their fierce response to the 2019 demonstrations, could be seen watching from the fringes of the square.
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