Material Heritage & the Chilean October Crisis 20XX

Chilean National Heritage Day:

A 1.5 hour walking tour of the protest destruction of built heritage in Ground Zero.

11:00 am. Meet north entrance Metro Univerdad Catolica, Alameda Ave. Barrio Lastarria, Santiago de Chile

The heritag Barrio Lastarria and adjacent Barrio San Borja are located in what is now known as Ground Zero, the epicentre of five month Chilean October Crisis 2019 that was suspended by COVID 19 quarantine in March 2020. When quarantine was lifted in October 2020, the unprecedented protest violence and destruction resumed with the destruction by fire of two historic churches to mark the first anniversary of the Crisis. The Chilean October Crisis was initiated on 18 October 2019 with the simultaneous attack by protesters on 20 metro stations and their city wide looting, arson and vandalism of built heritage. This form of extortion rapidly spread to 11 of Chile’s 15 regions. Ground Zero was established by this violence early in the crisis.