translated from Spanish: Metro Union President: “It’s strange that Carabineros has been to the stations and when they burn them are gone”

Eric Campos, president of the Metro Professionals and Technicians Union, told the medium CNN during this day that he stands in solidarity with “those hundreds and thousands of workers from Santiago who today had problems getting to their jobs” and pa it confirmed that about 12 Of the Santiago Metro workers were injured and 41 stations damaged, eight of them burned, not counting Eloísa Díaz who was burned down after his statements. In that vein he stated, “We have decided to call on all workers who are not in a position to attend their jobs on the Metro, do not do so.” In the interview, the synchronous leader opened a gap to doubt about these events by noting that “it is strange that Carabineros has been in the seasons and when they burn them are gone.” He added that from the union they made a call early this Friday to close the net, which he believed would have prevented damage. Furthermore, Eric Campos stated that “This social dialogue cannot be done with military personnel on the streets, let alone give a clear signal. And the clear signal is to lower the fare, to account for the citizen demand that was expressed in various ways yesterday” and added that they will act “clearly and forcefully” if reductions are made in the wages of subway workers. The president of the union highlighted the service that Metro delivers, and recalled that “it is the only axis that works of The Transantiago transport model”, and that they have no profit, since much of what customers pay serves to “guarantee profits for the owners of surface buses. Finally, the leader was also emphatically to criticize La Moneda in terms of his reactions to the demonstrations, stating that “the government turned yesterday’s road chaos into social chaos.”

Original source in Spanish