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WORLD NEWS
Three people were found
dead in a supermarket in the
San Bernardo district of Santi-
ago after looters sacked and
torched the store, authorities
said. Protests and the ransack-
ing of stores spread from this
capital of 6.7 million to Valpa-
raiso on the Pacific coast and
Concepcion some 300 miles to
the south. Flights were delayed
or canceled at Santiago’s inter-
national airport, and hundredsof passengers spent the night
sleeping on the floor.
A state of emergency was
declared in five provinces,
along with curfews in Santi-
ago and Concepcion, as au-
thorities tried to control the
unrest that led to 716 arrests
Saturday into Sunday and 72
police officers being injured,
Interior Minister Andrés
Chadwick said.
Protesters vandalized sub-way stations in Santiago and
set fire to buses, stores and
the headquarters of Enel Chile,
the local subsidiary of the Ital-
ian energy company.
The government responded
with police, soldiers and ar-
mored vehicles, which for
some Chileans would hark back
to the Augusto Pinochet dicta-
torship of the 1970s, when the
military used iron rule to con-
trol the country.SANTIAGO, Chile—Protests
and looting in what had until
now been Latin America’s most
prosperous, stable country led
to three deaths Sunday and
spread beyond the capital,
even after President Sebastián
Piñera said the increase in sub-
way fares that sparked the un-
rest would be canceled.
BYMAOLISCASTRO
ANDJUANFORERO
Spreading Protests Turn Deadly in Chile
A demonstrator clashed with riot police in Santiago on Sunday.PABLO VERA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGESWORLDWATCH
BOLIVIA
President Leads in
Election’s First Round
Bolivian’s leftist president,
Evo Morales, led in the first
round of voting in Sunday’s
election but apparently not by
enough to avoid a runoff that
could give the opposition a via-
ble shot at power.
With 83% of ballots counted,
Mr. Morales had received 45%
of the vote, topping the runner-
up, Carlos Mesa, who had 38%.
But Mr. Morales needed more
than 50% of the vote or a 10-
point difference over Mr. Mesa
for an outright victory, and
many Bolivian media outlets re-
ported the president had fallen
short.
Votes from rural areas were
still coming in late Sunday, and
Mr. Morales told supporters at
the presidential palace in La
Paz he was confident that a
“historic” victory was at hand.
“I’m sure that with the votes
from the rural areas that are
normally received, they’re going
to keep guaranteeing this pro-
cess of change,” the president
said, to cheers of “Evo! Evo!” as
he referred to his government
getting another five-year term.
For Mr. Mesa, a 66-year-old
former president and historian,
a Dec. 15 runoff seemed as-
sured. “We’ve achieved an un-
questionable triumph,” he said,
smiling and waving his fist.
—Juan Forero
RUSSIA
Gold Mine Collapses,
Killing at Least 15
At least 15 people are dead
after a dam at a small Siberian
gold mine collapsed and water
flooded two dormitories used
for workers.
The Emergencies Ministry
said that seven people were
unaccounted for, Russian news
reports said. The regional
health ministry said 16 people
were injured.
The dam had not been regis-
tered or approved for use by
Rostechnadzor, Russia’s agency
for technological and ecological
oversight, the Interfax news
agency cited the agency as
saying.
The collapse during heavy
rain occurred around 6 a.m.
Saturday near the village of
Shchetinkino in the Krasnoyarsk
region about 2,100 miles east
of Moscow.
The country’s Investigative
Committee said it has opened a
criminal investigation on possi-
ble violations of workplace-
safety regulations.
—Associated Press
INDONESIA
Leader Sworn In
For Second Term
Indonesian President Joko
Widodo, who rose from poverty
and pledged to champion de-
mocracy, fight entrenched cor-
ruption and modernize the
world’s most populous Muslim-
majority nation, was sworn in
for his second and final five-year
term.
Army troops and police, along
with armored vehicles, firetrucks
and ambulances, were deployed
across Jakarta, the capital, and
major roads were closed in a de-
parture from the more relaxed
atmosphere of Mr. Widodo’s
2014 inauguration. An Oct. 10
knife attack by an Islamic mili-
tant couple that wounded the
security minister set off a secu-
rity crackdown.
On his way to the ceremony
Sunday, Mr. Widodo got out of
his convoy with some of his se-
curity escorts and shook the
hands of supporters, who yelled
his name, waved Indonesia’s red-
and-white flag and called him
“bapak,” or father.
After taking his oath before
the Quran, Widodo laid out ambi-
tious targets to help Indonesia
join the ranks of the world’s de-
veloped nations by the time it
marks a century of independence
in 2045.
—Associated Press
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