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Social organizations camp in Santiago due to "deafness" of Chilean Government

Santiago de Chile, Dec 9 (EFE / EPA).- Representatives of different social organizations in Chile began a camping trip in the center of Santiago on Monday to denounce the "deafness" of the Government when responding to demands made during the social outbreak, which is about to turn two months and is the most serious in the country, with at least 24 people dead.(CAMERA: Jose Caviedes)IMAGES: FROM THE CAMP AND THE COURTS IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE. SOUNDBITES BY GABRIELA FARÍAS, DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONALS OF HEALTH SERVICES (FENPRUSS).TRANSLATION"54 days after the social outbreak, the social unit, which is a coordination of different organizations throughout the country, has decided to go one step further the mobilizations and has decided to install this camp here in the hope of drawing the attention of two powers of the state that are here: the judiciary and the legislative power, represented in the former headquarters of the National Congress. We are drawing the attention because 54 days after we still have no response to the most urgent demands, the answer that has been given in the form of a new constitution, it was made up inside the four walls of the congress without consulting us, we are already seeing through the press all the deficiencies that the implementation of that agreement has. So, we not only want a Constituent Assembly that is sovereign, joint and plurinational but that we can also move forward on certain urgent requirements that citizens have"