The Chilean urban insurrection began in Santiago de Chile with the attack on 20 metro stations in 6 hours,18 October 2019. Suspended by COVID 19 in March 2020, this performance is called a protest for social justice. Nearly one year later, the 6-hour siege of Capitol Hill in the USA is the public image of “surreal insurrectional violence” and “the greatest threat to American (sic) Democracy”. In Chile, the epicentre of unprecedented violence and destruction is Plaza Baquedano, Santiago de Chile. This hole in the ground, with an emptied plinth, and the exhumed Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from Chile’s victorious Pacific War (1879-1884), is at the centre of what is called Ground Zero. The first business of the new Government is an Amnesty for crimes committed during the urban insurrection, with a new Constitution being written as background, continuation, and result of the same. In this article, the author documents the unmaking of Plaza Baquedano, verified by morning-after media, overla
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