Pure Chile, you country of terror

Chilean student protest reimagined by Lezak Shallat.

"Stone-throwing students battling police at the entrance to the Isla Teja campus of the Universidad Austral in Valdivia in May 2017. In the field recording by Mark Baldwin, you can hear the percussive "ping" of projectiles hitting the armored police vehicles. Additional police arrive and prepare to respond with tear gas and water cannons. In this reimagining, a reporter at the scene from Radio Bio-Bio describes the confrontation and a student explains the protesters' demands for a university system that is free, public, and high-quality.
The music woven into the piece is the National Anthem of Terror, performed by the Free, Public, and Quality Orchestra of Catholic University students. The words to this parody of the Chilean national anthem are: Pure Chile, you country of terror where segregation reigns. Your commercialized sons, separated by repression, behold the majestic robbery of your mountains, forests, and oceans. May your unperturbed rich be the crown of the arts, industry, and law. Sweet money in exchange for the votes with which Chile sold off its future. May the shouts of all liberate us from granting asylum to the oppressor. And marching with the people's voice, make the tyrant tremble make the tyrant tremble make the tyrant tremble"

Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest