‘A story written in blood’: hopes for justice fade for victims of Chile’s police brutality
Five years after mass protest movement, thousands of victims are trapped between hopelessness and impunity
On a recent afternoon in Santiago, several thousand people gathered to mark the fifth anniversary of the vast protest movement which rocked Chile in 2019.
That same day last month, Sebastián Méndez, 38, who was blinded in his right eye by a projectile fired by a police officer at a demonstration that year, took his own life.
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