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CHILE - CRISIS - PROTESTS - DOG - NEGRO MATAPACOS

CHILE - CRISIS - PROTESTS - DOG - NEGRO MATAPACOS
Picture taken on October 17, 2010 of the so-called Negro Matapacos (slang for "Black Copskiller") dog, during a students protest in Santiago. The social movement that broke out in Chile in October had no leaders or political flags, but it does have an icon full of symbolism, the Negro Matapacos, a dog that poses in a thousand versions these days, even in heavenly murals turning it into an angel of the street. The mongrel -which died in 2017- had rose to fame in another wave of protests that shook power in 2011, when university students claimed quality and free education.
MARIO TELLEZ / AFP