'Women warriors' feed the hungry in Chile

Lagos leads the "Las Guerreras" soup kitchen, which prepares lunch for families with few resources who have been affected by the pandemic. Photos: AFP

LONG months of a pandemic lockdown and economic crisis have revived a scourge that Chileans thought they had beaten forever: hunger.

So the number of neighborhood soup kitchens has exploded in Santiago, and restaurants - some of them gourmet establishments - have lit up their stoves to whip up meals in solidarity.