Reminiscent of my recent trip to Chile. Every beautiful statue and monument, stores, churches, cemeteries etc have been either burned out, graffitied, covered with paint or otherwise destroyed for no apparent reason except they could get away with it. After the initial riots which started out calm until the "thugs" showed up and 35 people died, the police, who were accused of human rights violations, have backed off. Downtown Santiago and Valparaiso are a disaster. Don't let this happen to our country. These riots were not about ethnic backgrounds. They happened because of low wages and retirement benefits etc. WOW!
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