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President Pinera To Meet With Parties On Street Violence

President Pinera To Meet With Parties On Street Violence

President Sebastian Pinera was to meet Tuesday with leaders of Chile’s political parties in hopes of finding a way to end street protests that have now claimed 15 lives.

The country’s worst violence in decades erupted Friday and was initially triggered by an increase in metro fares. But it has mushroomed into a broader outcry against social-economic woes including a big gap between rich and poor in a country normally considered one of the most stable in Latin America.

The conservative Pinera declared over the weekend that the country was “at war against a powerful, implacable enemy,” but he adopted