Biggest demonstrations yet rock protest-stricken Chile

Santiago governor Karla Rubilar said almost a million people marched in the capital — more than five percent of the country's population.

Demonstrators react near an improvised bonfire during a protest against Chile’s state economic model in Santiago, Chile October 25, 2019. (Reuters Photo: Pablo Sanhueza)

As many as a million Chileans protested on Friday in the capital Santiago in the biggest demonstrations yet since violence broke out a week ago over entrenched inequality in the South American nation.