translated from Spanish: Massive evasions: Chile’s calls Let’s go to the government not to evade the substantive claim of the protest

Massive evasions in the Metro this week have left La Moneda unplaced. So far, the formula launched by the Executive to solve the crisis is only the eventual application of the state security law against those responsible, as stated this morning by the President of the Republic Sebastian Piñera, and have been closed to a possible review of the rise of passages that detoned the mobilizations, as was made clear by Transport Minister Gloria Hutt. However, from the opposition, statements in favor of protests increase and from officialism voices have already emerged asking to go to the bottom of the issue.
On the side of Chile Vamos, although there is a condemnation of the acts of vandalism and destruction recorded in recent days – which have left damage sover sins around 500 million pesos according to Metro’s estimate – they ask the Executive not to look at the issue only in terms of security. For Senator RN Francisco Chahuan, chairman of the Upper House Transport Commission, “it is urgent to change the way the increases are set in transport, because the social factor is not included in the formula. But violence and destruction also need to be sanctioned.”
Manuel José Ossandón, Senator RN for the Metropolitan, noted for his part that the task is twofold. “If we rule for all Chileans, we must hear the substance of these protests and punish hard those who believe that by harming, by breaking, they will achieve their goal. Double and relevant task. If we don’t achieve both, it will be free to destroy our country.”
However, despite the calls, the Government’s strategy was ratified at noon by Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick, who insisted on the implementation of the State Security Act. “We are in the collection of the evidence so that the claim goes directly” against those responsible, he said. He also called those responsible as “vandals and criminals” who “only hurt the people who work the most and that’s what’s most unworthy.”
Following its announcement, the incidents have been in crescendo at various points because the Metro reported at 14:51 hrs. total suspension of lines 1 and 2. “L1 and #L2 suspended with closed stations and no train service caused by protesters who prevent minimum safety conditions for passengers and workers,” the company said on Twitter.
The Broad Front proposal
The invocation of the State Security Act has been one of the key points of the discussion. One of the first to speak was former presidential pre-candidate Beatriz Sánchez who entered the ring asking the government to open up to a solution beyond the issue of security.  “President, won’t it be time to talk to your cabinet, to listen to people, to look for solutions, and to stand back with the lift to the transport?”
Specifically, on the Broad Front they called for not criminalizing protests, overturning the Metro’s fare hike, and seeking solutions. “We want to be very clear that the criminalization of protest is not the way to come to a solution, invoking the State Security Act is a profound mistake. Those who have mobilized are not criminals, they are calling for an answer in the face of rising cost of living and low wages and we want to side with the people, so we insist that this hike has to be pushed back and convene a dialogue to have a n new mechanism for fixing public transport prices,” said Social Convergence MP Gabriel Boric.
Gonzalo Winter, MP of the same party, assured that “in the government, they are champions to ask for empathy and compassion from tax evaders and now, when young people see their parents bring up the light, they raise the metro and raise the lease , the only thing the government offers are two things: getting up earlier and sticks, we believe that the government has to do what it has to do is take the lead of the country and lead to a dialogue.”
“Dialogue and not strength”
In the former New Majority they also placed the Government. From the Socialist Party, its president, Alvaro Elizalde, asked “President Piñera to face this episode with dialogue and not force. No one endorses the wreckage, but there is a deep-sea discomfort that needs to be taken care of, the feeling that the middle class and the most vulnerable always end up bearing all the burdens of the system.”
In turn, Senator DC Ximena Rincon for lifts in transportation said that “I totally understand the unease of the public and the young.”
“The Government has a complete ignorance of what the public is living, the passage of transport goes up. The electricity bills are up.  And it is not able to reflect and review procedures, regulations, and regulations,” he said.
“Citizenship reveals that discomfort. For the same reason, the Government must take over. And taking charge is not putting more carabinieri, it’s assuming there’s a problem.  And with the tax collection taking on the challenges that citizenship requires,” he concluded.
From the Bank of Communist Party deputies, a statement of support was issued for the so-called “mass evasions”, which they called as “legitimate actions of civil disobedience, an expression of accumulated claim in the face of the continued increase in the price of basic services, which have increased the cost of living especially in the most vulnerable sectors.”
They then rightly call for repealing the Metro fare increase, “which punishes millions of people.” “We regret that President Sebastián Piñera and his ministers have as their sole response the repression of mobilizations and mockery of their social demands, as did the Minister of Economy, Juan Andrés Fontaine, in statements that show the link to the social reality that Chileans and Chileans live.”
We also “reject the criminalization and use of violence by Carabineros towards workers and students who use public transport, as well as reject the idea of invoking the State Security Act.”
“Treating students and workers tired of the ups is an unacceptable provocation that threatens the exercise of the right of assembly and freedom of expression.”

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