Chile’s Social Uprising: An Interview with Nick MacWiliam, Director of ‘Santiago Rising’ By Chris Paul | 20 February, 2021
The documentary
Santiago Rising(2021, dir. Nick MacWilliam) looks at recent protests in Santiago de Chile and the government response that sent shockwaves across the world. What started as a student demonstration against a hike in metro fares in 2019 spread to wider protests against the social and economic inequality in the country. An early adopter of neo-liberalism under the rule of General Pinochet (1973 – 1990), Chile went through a mass privatisation programme of everything from education to pensions. More than thirty years since the return to democracy, the country still lives under the same 1980 Constitution and unequal economic model.