The gas, said one,
"doesn't allow us to breathe, so we're only feeling so-so."
Monday, December 02, 2019
Three Chilean children on
Sunday told an interviewer they are protesting against their country's
government and economic system in order to ensure a better future for the
country.
In a brief conversation with a
member of hip-hop collective Rebel Diaz, the three kids—aged 10, 11, and 8—said
they were out on the streets braving the effects of police-fired teargas to
fight for better salaries for Chileans, healthcare, the indigenous Mapuche, and
more.
"For the grandparents who
need money," said one child when asked why the trio were protesting.
"For the struggle,"
said another.
As Common Dreams reported,
protests kicked off around Chile in October after a fare hike on the subway in
the capitol Santiago. Billionaire right-wing President Sebastián Piñera
endorsed a rewrite of the Latin American country's constitution in an attempt
to placate the movement, but the demonstrations have continued due to systemic
issues of inequality and poverty under the nation's neoliberal economy.
Piñera's police and security
forces have taken harsh measures against the protest movement and a number of
demonstrators have disappeared, evoking memories of the military dictatorship
of General Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s and 1980s.
The three children told Rebel
Diaz that police teargas "doesn't allow us to breathe, so we're only
feeling so-so."
When asked, "was it fair
what the police did," referring to the teargas, the children replied in
unison, "No!"
Watch the interview:
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