Hundreds of health workers gathered at Plaza Dignidad to demand higher pay and a bonus for containing the COVID-19 pandemic, and to call for the resignation of President Piñera. Carabinero riot police arrived on the scene, violently arresting protesters and injuring dozens.
Hundreds of anticapitalist students marched in Paris to demand the reopening of universities with social distancing protocols in place in order to alleviate the psychological distress and mental disorders beginning to set in on the global population of youth, who have been forced to learn from home due to COVID.
Dozens of Tunisians burnt barricades and clashed with police in the coastal city of Sousse, demanding a stimulus as the country re-enters lockdown after a spike in cases. Police deployed tear gas but were unable to make any arrests or quell the demonstration until morning.
Greek anarchists in the eastern Athens suburb of Zografou dropped a banner at the Athens Polytechnic University in solidarity with the 25-year-old Klodian Rasha, whose murder on the 8th of December in Albania sparked massive riots for days in the capital.
Protesters in Peru turned out to protest in La Molina and Los Olivos, marching in the hundreds against the Merino administration that ousted Vizcarra. Demonstrators in Lima also turned out in the thousands in front of Parliament to denounce what is seen as a coup, clashing with police, with dozens if not hundreds of injuries occurring.
