📣 Chileans reflect, Ticos rewild

Six years ago this month, Chile experienced one of its most transformative events in recent history, as a protest originating with students who jumped turnstiles against a subway fare hike escalated into months-long nationwide rallies with millions in attendance.

Known in Spanish as the Estallido Social (“social explosion”), the protests’ mottos and slogans questioned Chile’s post-dictatorship economic order, calling for more equality, stronger health and education services, larger pensions and broad-scale institutional reforms.

More than 70% of Chileans…

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