Chile al Mundiallllll
Plaza Italia. Starts out with all of the police in riot gear blocking the statues but always ends up like this (kind of hard to see but this is the main statue with a sea of people on it). Everyone is in the streets with flags, confetti, playing soccer with whatever they can find, it´s really fun (happens every time Chile wins, even if it´s just a university game). Fun until the end of the night- this time people were climbing on flagpoles that ended up falling and injuring people, others were too drunk and falling off of the statues and randomly people started throwing bottles, so it ended in teargas and firehoses. A little dramatic.
Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more 
