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Santiago, Sep 29 (EFE).- After more than six months of artistic and cultural shows suspended by the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile, the culture sector denounced on Tuesday that their situation is "critical" and asked the government for help and concrete plans for the reactivation of the industry."Our field of work is invisible, we do not receive any aid from the government and there are many people who are not able to make ends meet," Anthony Guterac, vice president of the Association of Arts and Entertainment Workers, told EFE. (Camera: JOSE CAVIEDES). SHOT LIST: ARTISTS AND WORKERS IN CULTURE SECTOR STAGE A PROTEST MARCH TO ASK THE GOVERNMNENT FOR HELP DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, IN SANTIAGO, CHILE.
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