Chile: Social Protest as an Act of Incivility · Global Voices

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Last week, José Antonio Kast, the Chilean president, engaged in a discussion with a child and his mother. During a visit to the Liquén Cultural Center in Villarrica commune, a child refused to shake the president’s hand. The air seems to have touched a sensitive fiber. Kast threw himself into a perorata in which he rebuked the child and accused his mother of using it for political purposes, while the woman called him demagogue. Consulted by the …