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Santiago, Chile – 25 March 2025
1. Women dancing and people holding banners
2. Dancers carrying blue fabric representing water
3. Person wearing a water drop costume
4. Woman holding a banner reading (Spanish) "Livestock farming will leave the planet thirsty"
5. Close of banner
6. Dancers performing
7. Dancer’s eyes painted in blue
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cristóbal Rodríguez, spokesman of the Modatima Movement:
“We have Pinochet’s Constitution and the 1981 Water Code. Nothing has changed here; only the political system has been eroded. Therefore, what we have to do today, despite these setbacks in the electoral process, is to increase hope. The hope that we can recover water, the hope that each of the millions of Chileans can turn on the tap and see water come out.”
9. People carrying a banner with the phrase (Spanish) "Where is Julia Chuñil?"
10. People carrying a banner reading (Spanish) "Water for drinking, not for profit"
11. Painting of a hand turning off a water tap
12. Man holding a banner reading (Spanish) "Water. Human and natural right"
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish), Luís Henriquez, protester:
“It is very important that we demonstrate today for the right to water, for the protection of glaciers, for the conservation of rivers and wetlands, which are also a space for restoring water for territories and for nature. Demonstrating today is urgent and important.”
14. Person holding banner reading (Spanish) "Free Rivers"
15. People holding a banner
STORYLINE:
Protesters marched in the Chilean capital on Saturday, marking World Water Day and demanding expanded access to safe drinking water for citizens.
The demonstration, which was echoed in other Latin American cities, occurred during a regional crisis that has affected power generation and drinking water distribution.
According to the World Resources Institute, Chile is the only Latin American country among the 25 that suffers extreme water stress. Since 1980, the country has had a privatized sanitation system that restricts access to water.
The demand marked the protest in Santiago for the whereabouts of Julia Chuñil Catricura, a Mapuche environmental activist from the Los Ríos region, who has been missing since November 8, and whose family said that the woman had been threatened since 2014 for her work in the protection of a 900-hectare native forest.
In Uruguay, where the right to water and its public and community management is enshrined in the Constitution, more than 80 organizations called for mobilization, rejecting “all forms of privatization,” according to a communiqué.
Uruguay is experiencing a water crisis, which reached its most acute point in 2023.
The shortage lasted more than 70 days and affected 1.6 million people.
AP Video by Alexandre Plaza
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