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They are the Sister Trainers for all of the Hermana's. They have become our official contacts for all messages from the President. We were told tonight to make sure to have plenty of water on hand as the government is going to shut off the water in several areas of the town. We have the washer filled and the trash can and any container we could find. All of the missionaries who live near one of the metro stations have been moved to another pension with other missionaries. Their parents have all been called by President. They each have an emergency backpack in their apartments. They have been told to not wear their name tags and to dress in p-day attire and to stay in their pensions till the President tells them to leave. The wards are to check on them and as much as possible provide their lunches as usual. It is impossible for the President, the Hughes, or us to get from where we live to them so we have to rely on the wards. Here is what we know as of now:
October
20, 2019 / 7:23 AM / Updated 19 minutes ago
At least three dead in fires amid
Chilean riots, flights out of Santiago delayed
·
· SANTIAGO
(Reuters) - At least three people died in supermarket arson attacks in Chile’s
capital Santiago, and soldiers shot two people during an operation to detain
looters, authorities said, as protests entered their second day and
intensified after a state of emergency was announced.
There
was transport deadlock in the city and chaos at the international airport,
where flights into and out of Santiago were suspended or canceled as crew
members and airport staff were unable to get to work, the city’s governor said.
Santiago
and other Chilean cities have been engulfed by several days of riots as
protests over an increase in public transport costs prompted President
Sebastian Pinera to reverse the move and declare a state of emergency.
·
Santiago
governor Karla Rubilar said on Sunday that three people died a day earlier
after a supermarket in the San Bernardo district to the south of the city was
set on fire by demonstrators.
Chile’s
Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick said later that two people died in the
supermarket, while one was in hospital with serious injuries. It was announced later that he died as well.
Prosecutor
Xavier Armendáriz said a fourth person died in another fire at a supermarket in
Matucana, in the center of Santiago.
By
mid-afternoon on Sunday, prosecutors said 1,462 people had been charged in
connection with that day’s protests, 614 of them in Santiago.
That followed 179
arrests in Santiago on Saturday.
Chadwick
said more than 240 were taken into custody for violating a 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.
curfew for the capital that was announced on Saturday evening, the first since
the end of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship between 1973 and 1990.
The
interior minister said he could not rule out extending the state of emergency
declared for Santiago to Valparaíso, Bío Bío, Coquimbo and O´Higgins regions.
The
military authorities mandated by Pinera with reestablishing order in Santiago
said on Sunday they had shot and wounded two people before dawn in the
impoverished La Pintana neighborhood during an attempt to detain people who
ransacked a supermarket during the curfew.
One of
the injured was a passenger in a car that drove at a military convoy and failed
to heed warning shots, while the other was a bystander, the military said in a
statement.
Walmart
Chile confirmed said it had closed stores across the country after six were
torched and 111 looted. (Our Liders)
Flights
operated by Chilean airlines LATAM and Sky Airline were suspended or delayed on
Sunday morning after the curfew, a public transport shutdown and ongoing riots
left flight crews struggling to get to work, Rubilar said.
Crowds
of passengers were left stranded at the airport.
LATAM
Chile said on Twitter that, due to the public order situation, flights into and
out of the capital were affected.
“We
will continue to adjust our itineraries of flights into and out of Santiago on
Oct. 20 and 21,” the airline said, adding passengers should check details
before going to the airport. The airport was closed later in the day as employees cannot get there.
Thank goodness our transfer week was last week. One of the missions here has transfers tomorrow. The incoming missionaries have been detained at their Missionary Training Centers but there is great concern as to how to get the leaving missionaries out of Chile now. We will be interested to see if our new Senior Missionary couple will arrive on Saturday as scheduled. We are going to have trouble getting their apartment ready with the stores closed.
This evening we had the Hermana's come over for dinner and to watch the newest Book of Mormon segment.
It was a good diversion for them.
Well, that is all we have for now. The buses have stopped running again this evening. We should be able to sleep real good with absolutely no car or bus noise. We will not be going anywhere tomorrow without permission of our Mission President. We are not going to set the alarm tonight!
Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day for Chile.
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