Chile Takes to the Streets Against President Sebastian Piñera

Chile's social leaders and activists condemned President Sebastian Piñera's omission of human rights violations and mishandling of the pandemic in his administration's public account presentation to Congress on Friday.

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During Piñera's presentation in Valparaiso, protests took place throughout the country. The demonstrations were repressed by the Chilean police (Carabineros).

Even the New York Times admits that Chilean police are blinding protesters on purpose. 

"Eye mutilation continues in Chile. Military officers shoot people in the face in Santiago," Chilean correspondent Paola Dragnic denounced on Twitter.

The repression occurred "while President Piñera was finishing his public account in which he did not refer to human rights violations," Dragnic said.

"We regret that Piñera has not mentioned the victims of the serious human rights violations that have occurred since October," Chile's National Institute of Human Rights (INDH) director Sergio Micco assured.

Piñera missed this moment, "which would have been ideal to express his commitment to truth, justice, to ensure that these mistakes do not happen again," Micco added.

Chile's Christian Democracy (CD) also denounced the lack of introspection into the failure in the government's strategy against COVID-19.