Chile’s President Pinera insists he won’t resign
Speaking to the BBC’s South America correspondent, Katy Watson, Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera has said he will not resign despite the mass anti-government protests.
The demonstrations were originally triggered by a now-suspended rise in the price of metro fares in Santiago.
Protesters are now marching to express their discontent over a wide variety of problems.
Pinera said he was “democratically elected by a huge majority of Chileans,” and that while he accepted responsibility for entrenched inequality that was driving the protests, he was not “the only one.”
The 69-year-old billionaire told the British broadcaster that the protests had changed “everything” in the nation once held up as a beacon of stability in the region but added: “I hope for the better.”
Via BBC
