The Mapuche political prisoners, who have been on a hunger strike for months, were violently beaten, forced to end the strike and transferred to a hospital by the Chilean Gendarmerie officials

Social movements are demanding that urgent actions be taken against the Carabineros and that the interior ministers be removed from his position for their complicity in the violence against the Mapuche Indigenous community

The national strike has been called in rejection of the national government, its mishandling of the health and economic emergencies and the lack of food and aid for vulnerable population

Among those detained was Dr. Pablo Sepulveda Allende, grandson of the former socialist President Salvador Allende

We also report on the social protests in Chile against the neoliberal government of President Sebastián Piñera.

Jorge Mora, a football fan and a social activist, was run over by a national police truck outside a football stadium in Santiago

For months, hundreds of thousands of Chileans have been standing firm in their demand for a new inclusive constitution through a National Constituent Assembly, enduring brutal state repression

The national police beat demonstrators, dragged them off the road and arrested 17 protesters

Since June 14, over 3,200 workers at the Chuquicamata mine have been on strike demanding lifetime health insurance coverage for all workers

The students mobilized demanding an end to indebtedness, criminalization of students, gender-based inequality and sexual harassment as well as an improved budget for education, a mental health program in higher education institutions and spaces for civic education