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Anti-government demonstrators clash with Chilean police during a protest in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. Students in Chile began protesting nearly a month ago over a subway fare hike. The demonstrations have morphed into a massive protest movement demanding improvements in basic services and benefits, including pensions, health, and education. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chileans agree to replace dictatorship-era constitution

By EVA VERGARA and PATRICIA LUNA - Associated Press

In this Oct. 29, 2019, file photo, anti-government protesters run from police spraying water cannons where a street barricade burns, set by demonstrators, in Santiago, Chile. From Honduras to Chile, popular frustration with anemic economic growth, entrenched corruption and gaping inequality is driving the region’s middle classes to rebel against incumbents of all ideological bents in what has been dubbed by some the Latin American Spring. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Latin America burns as economic hardship sparks rage of protesters

By Frederic Puglie - Special to The Washington Times

Anti-government protesters clash with the police during protest in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. The government announced Sunday it has agreed to start the process to write a new Constitution for the country, one of the most repeated demands of protesters who have taken to the streets in often violent demonstrations in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chile enters 26th day of protest with strike, huge marches

By PATRICIA LUNA - Associated Press

Chile's President Sebastian Pinera arrives to La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. The government announced Sunday it has agreed to write a new Constitution for the country, one of the most repeated demands of protesters who have taken to the streets in often violent demonstrations in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Opposition rejects plan for new Chilean Constitution

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

Police advance on anti-government protesters, past a religious statue that protesters removed from a church and then damaged, in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. Chile's president on Thursday announced measures to increase security and toughen sanctions for vandalism following three weeks of protests that have left at least 20 dead. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Church looted by vandals as protests rage in Chile’s capital

By ESTEBAN FELIX and EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

Demonstrators clash with a police water cannon during an anti-government protest in Santiago, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Chileans have been taking to the streets and clashing with the police to demand better social services and an end to economic inequality, even as the government announced that weeks of demonstrations are hurting the country's economic growth. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chile’s protests shrink in size after nearly 3 weeks

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

A demonstrator waves a Chilean national flag while atop a truck during a protest against highway tolls, in Santiago, Chile,Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. Chilean President Sebastián Piñera has proposed to Congress a 16% increase in the minimum wage while hundreds of cars traveled by caravan demanding a reduction in tolls. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chile: president promotes minimum wage hike to quell unrest

By EVA VERGARA and PATRICIA LUNA - Associated Press

Earthquake shakes Chile’s capital, causes buildings to sway

Associated Press

Men dressed as clowns, one dressed as the the movie character “The Joker” flying a Mapuche indigenous flag, are sprayed by a police water cannon during an anti-government protest in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Nov. 4, 2019. Chile has been facing weeks of unrest, triggered by a relatively minor increase in subway fares. The protests have shaken a nation noted for economic stability over the past decades, which has seen steadily declining poverty despite persistent high rates of inequality. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chile protests resume, demonstrations crimp economic growth

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

Demonstrators are sprayed by a police water cannon during an anti-government protest in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Nov. 1, 2019. Chile has been facing days of unrest, triggered by a relatively minor increase in subway fares. The protests have shaken a nation noted for economic stability over the past decades, which has seen steadily declining poverty despite persistent high rates of inequality. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

UN team gathers accounts of injuries during Chile’s protests

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

Women dressed in black perform to mourn those who have been killed, tortured and raped during an anti-government protest in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Nov. 1, 2019. Chile has been facing days of unrest, triggered by a relatively minor increase in subway fares. The protests have shaken a nation noted for economic stability over the past decades, which has seen steadily declining poverty despite persistent high rates of inequality. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

US alleges Russia meddling in Chilean protests

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO - Associated Press

Youngsters shout slogans during a small protest by Extinction Rebellion climate change activists outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Spain offers Madrid as host of December UN climate summit

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

An anti-government protester walks away from the spray of a police water cannon in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. Tuesday is the 12th day of demonstrations that began with youth protests over a subway fare hike that transformed into a leaderless national movement demanding greater equality and better public services in a country long seen as an economic success story. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chile cancels climate, trade summits amid protest chaos

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

An anti-government protester throws a rock at police in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. Tuesday is the 12th day of demonstrations that began with youth protests over a subway fare hike that transformed into a leaderless national movement demanding greater equality and better public services in a country long seen as an economic success story. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chile cancels summit in face of massive street protests

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A masked anti-government protester stands by a burning barricade in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019. Fresh protests and attacks on businesses erupted in Chile Monday despite President Sebasti&#225;n Pi&#241;era's replacement of eight important Cabinet ministers with more centrist figures, and his attempts to assure the country that he had heard calls for greater equality and improved social services. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Fresh protests, looting erupt in Chile despite new Cabinet

By Michael Weissenstein and Eva Vergara - Associated Press

Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno arrives to meet with merchants affected by the protests around the National Assembly in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. Weeks of violent demonstrations were triggered when President Moreno announced that he was getting rid of fuel subsidies, but he was forced to reinstate them after the protests. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Is boom, then slump, behind fiery Latin American protests?

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

A demonstrator holds a Chilean flag during a protest in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. Rioting, arson attacks and violent clashes wracked Chile as the government raised the death toll to 15 in an upheaval that has almost paralyzed the South American country long seen as the region's oasis of stability. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Protests rage in Chile despite president’s reform promise

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

An anti-government protester raises his hands during clashes with police in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. The government said Tuesday that 15 people have died in five days of rioting, arson and violent clashes that were sparked by a hike in subway fares and have almost paralyzed the country. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Death toll rises to 15 as violence wracks Chile for 5th day

By EVA VERGARA and LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

Demonstrators build a burning barricade during a protest in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019. The protests started on Friday afternoon when high school students flooded subway stations, jumping turnstiles, dodging fares and vandalizing stations as part of protests against a fare hike, but by nightfall had extended throughout Santiago with students setting up barricades and fires at the entrances to subway stations, forcing President Sebastian Pinera to announce a state of emergency and deploy the armed forces into the streets. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chile’s president rolls back subway fare hike amid protests

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

Teenager Bhatia wants to be part of youth movement in golf

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