What the records say
- When
- 16 Aug 1949 – 17 Aug 1949
- Kind
- Protest
- Coordinates
- 33.44° S, 70.65° W
- Description
- 1949 demonstration in Chile
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Revolution of the chaucha
1949 demonstration in Chile
The revolution of the chaucha was a demonstration held on August 16 and 17, 1949, in Santiago, Chile, against the proposed increase in the price of public transport tickets by 20 cents of the Chilean peso.
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- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Santiago de Chile, los carabineros reprimen una manifestación ―con motivo del alza del valor del transporte colectivo en 20 centavos de peso (una…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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