March begins with festivities, ends with burning barricades, tear gas and clashes with police.
Chaos reigned in central Santiago Thursday afternoon as Carabinero special forces and hundreds of “encapuchados” (hooded vandals) fought a guerrilla war on the second of a two-day demonstration for education reform.
Musicians and dancers try to flee from Carabinero water-cannons. Photo by Joe Hinchliffe/Santiago Times.Login to read more.
Chaos reigned in central Santiago Thursday afternoon as Carabinero special forces and hundreds of “encapuchados” (hooded vandals) fought a guerrilla war on the second of a two-day demonstration for education reform.
Musicians and dancers try to flee from Carabinero water-cannons. Photo by Joe Hinchliffe/Santiago Times.Login to read more.About the writer
Joe Hinchliffe
Joe is from Brisbane, arguably the greatest city in Australia outside of Melbourne and Sydney and not including the capital, which no one outside the country has heard of anyway. He studied journalism and geography at the University of Queensland. In 2009 he left to do his last year of study on exchange at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He has lived in Santiago since mid-2010.
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