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FILE - In this March 1, 2020 file photo, anti-government protesters wear hazmat-like suits and gas masks during a rally in Baghdad, Iraq. As 2019 gave way to 2020 in a cloud of tear gas, and in some cases a hail of bullets, from Hong Kong to Baghdad, from Beirut to Barcelona and Santiago, it seemed civil disobedience and government crackdowns on protests would dominate the international landscape. Then came the coronavirus. But some protesters are trying to keep their movements alive, adjusting to the outbreak fears. The vast majority of people recover from the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

The new mask: Wave of global revolt replaced by virus fear

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Feb. 4 photo, Martin G. Brumbaugh School kindergarten teacher Nydsy Santiago walks past curtains set up to provide shade for her students under a gazebo at a municipal athletic park in Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico. Some children in Puerto Rico have been left out of school nearly a month after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit the island and forced officials to permanently close dozens of public schools, prompting more homeschooling and some teachers to voluntarily find an appropriate outdoor location and resume classes with permission from parents. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Students adrift after quake as Puerto Rico schools shuttered

By DÁNICA COTO - Associated Press

Dina Blanco show injuries on her back during an interview at Luis Fabrega Hospital in Santiago, Panama, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. The survivor of a cult ceremony that killed 7 people in her remote village in Panama says she was ordered to close her eyes, was beaten and knocked unconscious during the ritual. Her father and her son managed to escape but Blanco and her daughter Inés, who died, were not so lucky. (AP Photo/Juan Zamorano)

Survivor recounts confused, chaotic cult rite that killed 7

By JUAN ZAMORANO - Associated Press

In this Nov. 5, 2019 photo, retired Maria Gonzalez, 77, works selling tissue and toilet paper in downtown Santiago, Chile. Reforms to Chile’s dictatorship-era pension system has emerged as one of the key demands of the massive mobilizations that continue to consume the South American nation. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Pensioners struggling to survive join Chile protests

By 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

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

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

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

Firefighters spray water on a looted supermarket in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. Chilean President Sebastián Piñera on Saturday announced the suspension of a subway fare hike that had prompted violent student protests, less than a day after he declared a state of emergency amid rioting and commuter chaos in the capital. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chile violence continues despite gov’t retreat on fare hike

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

Holding signs that read in Spanish, from left, &quot;We pay Cops Salaries and subway fare, and here they are against us,&quot; &quot;Save on your ticket&quot; and &quot;The people united will never be defeated,&quot; students block the turnstiles to the subway protesting against the rising cost of subway and bus fare, in Santiago, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Subway service in Chile’s capital suspended as protest grows

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

Woman pleads guilty to stealing more than $140K in benefits

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In this March 28, 2019 photo, Bishop Carlos Eugenio Irarrázabal, center, sits on the altar during Mass with acting archbishop of Santiago, Monsignor Celestino Aos, left, at El Bosque Parish in Santiago, Chile. The priest at right is unidentified. Pope Francis accepted Irarrázabal's resignation just 24 days after he appointed him to the post of auxiliary bishop of the Chilean capital, church officials said Friday, June 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Pope Francis accepts resignation of Chilean auxiliary bishop

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Onlookers look at the building where six Brazilians died in an apartment of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, May 22, 2019. Police commander Rodrigo Soto said officers found four adults and two children dead at the six-story building. The fire department said a high concentration of carbon monoxide was measured in the apartment, which it said was completely closed. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

6 Brazilian tourists die of carbon monoxide in Chile

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Pope Francis wears his glasses as he arrives in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican for a audience with students, family and teachers of the Barbarigo catholic school of Padua, Saturday, March 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope replaces Santiago bishop accused of sex abuse cover-up

By NICOLE WINFIELD and PATRICIA LUNA - Associated Press

In this Nov. 8, 2018 photo, Venezuelan born Andrea Diaz, Miss Chile, takes part in a runway class in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. &quot;I represent the new Chile,&quot; the 26-year-old said as she was training at a local gym in Santiago for the upcoming competition. &quot;This is an inclusive country where immigrants come in search of opportunities.&quot; (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Venezuelan beauty queens migrate for shot at stardom abroad

By MANUEL RUEDA and EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2015 file photo, Fernando Karadima is escorted from a court, after testifying in a case that three of his victims brought against the country's Catholic Church in Santiago, Chile. Pope Francis has on Friday, Sept. 29, 2018, defrocked Karadima, a priest at the center of the global sex abuse scandal rocking his papacy, invoking his &quot;supreme&quot; authority to stiffen a sentence originally handed down by a Vatican court in 2011. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo, File)

Pope defrocks Chilean priest at center of abuse scandal

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Police officers escort Franco Sepulveda off a plane, after he was detained in Antofagasta, for making multiple bomb threats about several airline flights, in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Aug. 17, 2018. Sepulveda caused nine commercial airline flights to take emergency measures. Police chief Mario Rojas said Sepulveda was angry because his suitcase was not returned. (Javier Torres/Aton Chile via AP)

Chile: Man angry over suitcase behind wave of bomb threats

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Chilean officials: Flights hit by wave of false bomb threats

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A man leaves the headquarters of the Catholic Church’s Episcopal Conference after authorities raided the building in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018. Police raided the place as part of a widespread investigation into sex abuse committed by members of the Marist Brothers order in the South American country, prosecutors said. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chile authorities raid Episcopal Conference in abuse probe

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

In this March 20, 2018 photo, Guido Nunez-Mujica, right, meets for the firs time with fellow Venezuelans who he helped leave Venezuela, Daniel Klie, left, and Elias Martinez, third from left, as Elias' girlfriend Elizabeth Vieria and Nunez-Mujica' American husband Tom Japhet join them at a bar in Santiago, Chile. Nunez-Mujica, who works in the U.S., is helping resettle a group of young Venezuelans trying to retrace his own immigrant’s journey to a better future. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

US tech worker helps fellow Venezuelans flee economic mayhem

By TERRY CHEA and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press