Kast's government is already showing its true colors: — slashing rights, criminalizing protest and handing tax breaks to the wealthy while calling it a national 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.
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