Violent protests in Chile: Will this spread to Argentina?

This is how poverty has been trending in Chile as of late. Chile today is the most prosperous and developed country in Latin America. It leads the region on every social indicator, from life expectancy, to literacy, to access to electricity and pluming, to per capita income. It is the only Latin America country to make it to OECD membership. They are everything the rest of Latin America is not (but would like to become). But I guess the Chileans are protesting because they feel left out from the rest of the continent and want to be like Argentina/Venezuela. The siren song of "free shit" is really captivating. Just look at the wrecked countries in the region as evidence, specially this one.
But hey, go for it.
 
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Rich One said:
The underlying message from the rioters is "The Rich Got to Rich", developing a sense of unfairness and envy and desire to have the rich suffer. They don't care about the benefits they may receive...! They Only care to see the billionaires like Piñera on their knees ..!
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Cannot help but wonder if what is happening in Chile is a replay of Argentina in the 1940s, when the majority of the population decided to light the whole thing on fire, despite the prosperity the country had enjoyed until then.
 
Former communist student leader Camila Vallejo (2006/2011) today Communist Party Diputado of Chilean congress . Declared that the civil unrest will not stop with Piñera's Announcements of future changes but instead will if President Piñera assumes responsibility for the 17 dead and faces charges for the destruction caused by his tardy reactions...!
 
Rich One said:
Former communist student leader Camila Vallejo (2006/2011) today Communist Party Diputado of Chilean congress . Declared that the civil unrest will not stop with Piñera's Announcements of future changes but instead will if President Piñera assumes responsibility for the 17 dead and faces charges for the destruction caused by his tardy reactions...!
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For sure he'll do that today. Meanwhile police and protestors love each other:
 
Blockades and burning tires reported in the access roads to Codelco Copper mines up Northern Chile. Mine workers live in Calama and commute by bus to the mines in the mountain..! The first shift workers could not reach the mines...! 50 buses reported stranded..!

These" high school students protesters" are pretty shrewd,wanting to disrupt copper production...! a strike to the yugular...
 
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