Chile woke up.
The wall in Santiago de Chile learned to speak.
They speak of rage, misery, hope.
This is Avenida Liberador General Bernardo O'Higgins,
said Avenida Alamera, Santiagos' most important street.
Only two store are intact.
The poultry store and the German store
The metro station is destroyed.
Others in the zone are closed.
Protesters say many prisoners have been abused.
Plaza Italia has a new face.
The monument to General Baquedano became a wall.
The place has a new name: Place of Dignity.
The eyes burn, the throath becomes dry.
Teargas.
We're in Zone Zero.
This place marks the inequality that so much aches the Chileans.
On the one side precarity, on the other: abundance.
Pensions, education, health!
Only this we demand!
Since October 18 this place became witness
of a people that woke up.
The dream of a successful neoliberalism in Latinamerica
is over.
The rage expresses itself through art, music,
and dance.
Since 50 days Chileans have been meeting up here every day.
Some more, some less.
They sind with courage, to exorcise the gost of military dictatorship,
that opressed them for 17 years.
The young take to the streets
for the pledge of their parents and grandparents: "Never again!"
Some meters away another expression of the protest:
the combat.
The active defence to protect the demonstration.
The First Line, Objective: containment.
Shields of wood, brass, plastic.
masks, hoods scarfs, courage.
Second line, Objective: attack.
Gloves, water canisters, stones, marbles, atmosphere.
Third line. Objective: self-defence.
Green lasers, peojected on the masks of the adversary
to restrain their sight.
On the other side policemen, called Pacos.
Little tanks come, water cannons, the teargas.
Combats begins.
Gas and water wet the Chileans.
Nobody is spared: peaceful or violent,
old, young, women.
First aiders!
This are volounteer first aiders.
They evacuate the injured from the combat zone.
At first they were five, now they're 83.
Men and women who provide First Aid on the ground.
Their head quarters are one minute away from Zone Zero.
They are independent, not part of any political affiliation.
It's injuries from rubber bullets, teargas bombs,
contusions, every type of trauma.
We had several serious eye traumas.
We also medicated people with abdominnal traumas,
and facial injuries.
Medical equipment, stretchers, communication equipment,
shields and helmets.
They say there is systematic violence
against protesters and first aiders.
The chemical that is used
causes a strong irritation.
We had never before seen people convulsed with pain
because of the chemicals they have been exposed to.
Now we have.
Carlos is 49 years old.
He is a chemical analyst and first aider.
Never in his live he has seen so much violence.
In two cases people who pressed charges
have been sexually abused by Carabinieros
and then thrown into the streets.
More then 50 days of protest.
What enrages the Chileans: the impunity, the abuses,
the system, that held them in misery:
they don't have enough to live.
Minimum wage (295.000 Pesos) Rent, water, gas, electricity,
transport, education, food.
Ant the pensions? they don't suffice.
Although Chile has so much coast,
fish is more expensive then meat.
No, it's not enough.
Chileans say, they won't stop until this has changed.
Pablo Sales, camera Anna Maria Isla, correspondent,
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