Chilean lawmakers agreed late on Wednesday to fast-track reforms to beef up secu...
SANTIAGO - Chilean lawmakers agreed late on Wednesday to fast-track reforms to beef up security, warning that a resurgence in violence and vandalism was threatening to derail the country’s 30-year-old democracy.
The deal, struck between ruling party and opposition lawmakers, acknowledged the government had done too little, too late to stem the crisis. “The country is confronting a crisis of violence and vandalism that threatens our democracy,” begins the two-page document. “Violence is causing harm that may become irreparable to the body and soul of our society,” Pinera said from the La Moneda presidential palace.
Chile´s Interior Ministry reported that police arrested 915 people Tuesday, while the number of “serious incidents” overnight had nearly doubled from the previous day.
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