Chile protests: Piñera announces welfare package
Seventeen people have died and more than 5,000 detained. Chilean President Sebastián Piñera has announced reforms aimed at ending days of violent protests.
Seventeen people have died and more than 5,000 detained. Chilean President Sebastián Piñera has announced reforms aimed at ending days of violent protests.
Eleven people died after looters torched a garment factory near Chile's capital Santiago, bringing the death toll in violent protests to at least seven.
President Piñera has suspended the rise in metro fares that sparked the protests, but unrest has continued.