'Burning the metro': Chile election divides voters between protest and order

Workers carry electoral material inside a polling station ahead of the upcoming presidential election in Santiago, Chile, November 19, 2021. Chileans go to the polls in the first round of presidential elections on November 21, 2021. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - For many Chileans, Plaza Baquedano, a broad rotary in central Santiago that for decades served as a center of social protest, has become a powerful symbol of hope.

For two years, city residents have regularly gathered here https://graphics.reuters.com/CHILE-PROTESTS/0100B32527X/index.html to protest pensions that are too low, public transit fees that are too high and, more generally, an old-guard political class that just does not get it.