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John Bartlett in Santiago

‘A story written in blood’: hopes for justice fade for victims of Chile’s police brutality

A small altar with two photos and candles
An altar for Jorge Salvo, who was blinded in one eye by police teargas in 2020. Three years later on 18 July 2023 Salvo took his own life. Photograph: Sofia Yanjari/The Guardian

On a recent afternoon in Santiago, several thousand people gathered to mark the fifth anniversary of the vast protest movement which rocked Chile in 2019.

That same day last month, Sebastián Méndez, 38, who was blinded in his right eye by a projectile fired by a police officer at a demonstration that year, took his own life.

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