During this morning, dozens of people carried out disorders in the Alameda, precisely at the height of San Alfonso, to demand business licenses or work permits. Those who staged the demonstration were mainly former merchants from the Meiggs neighborhood known as the “blue awnings”.
Traffic was paralyzed in the place and barricades were made with the aim of resuming their work, after the plan of the government and the Municipality of Santiago that removed the blue awnings from the Meiggs neighborhood with the aim of recovering public spaces and dismantling illegal trade. .
The demonstrators made a call to the mayor Irací Hassler to hold a work table to meet their demands. The Prefecture of Police Public Order Control arrived at the place to put an end to the disorders, making use of the water launcher car.
Video via Twitter @Bartosalino
This demonstration generated a blockade of the roads in Exposition with Sazie, and Grajales between Bascuñán Guerrero and Unión Latino Americana, according to Transporte Informa.
ATTENTION to those who travel through the Meiggs neighborhood in #Santiago: Now (09:45) there is a blockade of the tracks in Exposition with Sazie, and Grajales between Bascuñán Guerrero and Unión Latino Americana. We recommend not to travel to these points pic.twitter.com/jjdvVbdXfZ
— TransportInforma Santiago Metropolitan Region (@TTISantiago) August 10, 2022
? NOW | Street vendors protest in Barrio Meiggs
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