The rise in the price of public transport was the spark that in 2019 ignited Chile. On October 6, the government announced an increase of 30 pesos ($0,034) of the public transport ticket. A rising tension began on Friday, October 18, with the burning of more than twenty subway stations. This project documents how the social outbreak spreaded during the following months and how the community achieved to create a new Constitution.
The rise in the price of public transport was the spark that in 2019 ignited Chile. On October 6, the government announced an increase of 30 pesos ($0,034) of the public transport ticket. A rising tension began on Friday, October 18, with the burning of more than twenty subway stations. This project documents how the social outbreak spreaded during the following months and how the community achieved to create a new Constitution.