Chile Protests: Shaken Government Makes Concessions, No Hike In Electricity Prices
Chile’s government made more economic concessions Thursday to try to curb a week of deadly protests over price increases and other grievances. President Sebastin Piera announced a freeze on a 9.2 per cent rise in electricity prices until the end of next year, a day after large demonstrations and riots in the capital, Santiago. Piera said the measures aimed at easing public anger don’t “solve all the problems†but are “an important relief.†At least 18 people have died in violence tha
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