Riot police confronting demonstrators during a protest to commemorate the third anniversary of Chile's 2019 social uprising, near Baquedano square in Santiago, October 18, 2022 [Martin Bernetti/AFP] ...

It is not poverty that is driving Chile's middle class into the streets to join massive ... "Chile has awoken," has become one of the main slogans of anti-government protesters since October 18.

Five years have passed since Chile erupted into protest. During those months of nationwide unrest, millions of people spilled out into the streets, voicing for a desire for economic and social change.

Maria M. Mur . Santiago de Chile, Oct 18 (EFE).- In 2019, Chile was plunged into the worst wave of protests since the end of the dictatorship and began a long discussion about its social model.