Chile: Protests Against the “Madrid Forum” in Santiago
We hereby share an unofficial translation of a report published on the social media platforms of Newspaper El Pueblo, on August 4, relating to the call to protest against the V. Regional Meeting of the Madrid Forum 2026 in Santiago, Chile, which was shared by Newspaper El Pueblo and Anti-Imperialist Front – Chile (FAI) on August 27:
Multiple Protests Against the “Madrid Forum” and the Student Struggle.
Thursday, September 3, was a turbulent day, beginning in the morning with a powerful student mobilization from high school and university campuses. Starting from Plaza Dignidad (Baquedano Square), the marching to the front of the Catholic University, where it was met with heavy repression. In response, the students decided to fight back and resist. Several skirmishes broke out while the ultra-reactionary Kast received his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, at La Moneda Palace—both of them bootlickers of Yankee imperialism.
In the afternoon, the protests resumed, this time specifically against the “Madrid Forum,” highlighting the various anti-imperialist, anti-fascist, and popular class-based forces that converged in the call to protest, and organized to march from Paseo Ahumada along the Alameda to Plaza Dignidad, joining forces with students and masses who had also gathered at that historic site of mobilizations in response to the call made by student and feminist forces.
We can unequivocally state that the nefarious, country-selling, and reactionary Fifth Meeting of the fascist and anti-popular puppets of Trump and the United States in Latin America did not go unnoticed in Santiago, Chile.
New signs of a counter-current in the class struggle in our country are emerging, and there is no doubt that, gradually, the popular struggle will advance until it finds higher forms.
