After 10 days of eating and drinking like kings in Argentina, it was back to Santiago for that flight on the 1st of September to, erm, Argentina. (Probably could have been planned better, but never mind!) And what a welcome back we had, arriving just in time to drive straight through a riot. As our taxi from the bus station neared the centre, we immediately noticed the police presence; it was clear something was going down, and Neil had remembered seeing on the news earlier that the Unions had organised a demonstration that day. Very quickly, however, dozens of police became hundreds, in full riot gear and with dogs, using tanks and water cannons to supress the crowds. Before we knew it, we were right in thick of it, with bricks flying past the taxi and
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