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Chile's Kast Meets Mayors as Students Protest Austerity

Chile's Kast Meets Mayors as Students Protest Austerity

Above: Protesters and police clash during an anti-government protest in Santiago on June 3, 2026. Image credit: *** GETTY *** Cristobal Basaure/Anadolu/Getty Images

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Kast's government is already showing its true colors — slashing rights, criminalizing protest and handing tax breaks to the wealthy while calling it reconstruction. Students across Chile are right to take to the streets, and the mass mobilizations prove the movement is alive and growing. Unleashing police with dogs and water cannons on peaceful demonstrators only confirms what this administration is really about.

The Confech doesn't speak for Chilean students — it speaks for a narrow political faction that captured low-turnout elections. With participation rates as low as 15% at some universities, these federations can't credibly claim a majority mandate. Treating Confech declarations as the unified voice of students erases the thousands who never showed up because they simply don't agree.

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