Occupy protests spread to South America
- 13 years ago
On the day their anti-corporate protests go global, thousands rally in New York's Times Square to show their support.
The month-long Occupy Wall Street movement echoes across Latin America on Saturday as thousands take to the streets in protest.
In Argentina, hundreds gather in front of the congressional palace in downtown Buenos Aires for a peaceful, festive demonstration.
Calling themselves los indignados - the indignant ones - they march through the cities to condemn financial inequality, injustice and unemployment.
Similar scenes fill Chile's capital Santiago, scene of numerous protests recently by students demanding better education.
SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PROTESTER ANGELINA, SAYING:
"Inequality outrages me, arrogance outrages me, the poverty that generates outrages me. Not only economic poverty but people's spiritual poverty."
Hundreds also gathered at Mexico City's Revolution Monument to protest the global economic crisis.
(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) DEMONSTRATOR DANIEL GERSHENSON SAYING:
"We're not figures or currencies to be exchanged. We're citizens, human beings. And we -from the civil society and the base- have to impede what the country and the world gets out of our hands."
According to the website 15October.net, the Occupy Wall Street movement inspired events in 82 countries.
Sunita Rappai, Reuters
The month-long Occupy Wall Street movement echoes across Latin America on Saturday as thousands take to the streets in protest.
In Argentina, hundreds gather in front of the congressional palace in downtown Buenos Aires for a peaceful, festive demonstration.
Calling themselves los indignados - the indignant ones - they march through the cities to condemn financial inequality, injustice and unemployment.
Similar scenes fill Chile's capital Santiago, scene of numerous protests recently by students demanding better education.
SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PROTESTER ANGELINA, SAYING:
"Inequality outrages me, arrogance outrages me, the poverty that generates outrages me. Not only economic poverty but people's spiritual poverty."
Hundreds also gathered at Mexico City's Revolution Monument to protest the global economic crisis.
(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) DEMONSTRATOR DANIEL GERSHENSON SAYING:
"We're not figures or currencies to be exchanged. We're citizens, human beings. And we -from the civil society and the base- have to impede what the country and the world gets out of our hands."
According to the website 15October.net, the Occupy Wall Street movement inspired events in 82 countries.
Sunita Rappai, Reuters