Protesters dropped 2 banners, in English and Spanish, outside of the Wyatt Detention Center which houses undocumented immigrants caught by DHS and ICE. They called for the abolition of police, prisons, and the closing of the Wyatt Detention Center.
Clashes continued between Chilean government forces and indigenous insurgents in the region of Araucania, with Mapuche groups reclaiming ancestral land and sabotaging assets of extractivist companies contributing to deforestation.
Chileans in Antofagasta placed and burned barricades following the police murder of a street artist in the city of Panguipulli for not being able to present his ID before being shot in the chest several times by Carabineros.
Dozens of antifascists returned to the streets of Sacramento to combat the weekly Stop the Steal rally attended by Proud Boys, marching as well in support of the Indian Farmers’ Protest solidarity event going on at the same time. Several clashes broke out, with pepper spray being used and a shield wall being formed.
Protesters took to the streets in Santiago on the anniversary of the murder of Communist Revolutionary and singer Victor Jara by the US-backed fascist Pinochet regime. Victor Jara, a militant of the Chilean communist party, was arrested after the US-backed far-right coup against Salvador Allende and brutally tortured until being shot 44 times by regime forces on the 16th.
