Protests began October 11 as students jumped turnstiles and clashed with police in mass fare evasion to protest fare hikes.
In response to the protests, police have shut down entrances to subway stations as a form of crowd control. Arrests have been made andVideos posted to Twitter are also showing acts of vandalism, as students forcefully push through turnstiles. In one case, a student used a metal pipe to break a glass kiosk.According to People's Dispatch, the protests began with just 80 students in three metro stations, but has since expanded to hundreds across Santiago.
People crowd Los Libertadores station on the inauguration day of the Santiago Metro Line 3, in Santiago, on January 22, 2019. This week protestors have been crowding the station to protest fare hikes.The fare increase brought to prices to 830 Chilean pesos for a metro ticket and 710 pesos for a bus ticket. This is compared to .47 USD for a metro ticket in Buenos Aires and .45 USD for a single ride on the metro in Lima.
On October 16 the Minister of Transportation, Gloria Hutt, said during a press conference that they are considering adding fare evaders to a registry that could bar them from certain rights, such as getting a driver's license. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Santiago Metro, Louis de Grange, tweeted,"It is not evasion, it's violence. We will take legal action."
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