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Meat riots
| Meat riots | |||||||
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 Dragoons roaming the streets | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Workers protesters | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Germán Riesco Roberto Silva Renard | |||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 230 killed | 20 killed | ||||||
| Economic history of Chile |
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The Meat riot (Spanish: Huelga de la carne), in the Chilean capital Santiago in October 1905, was a violent riot that originated from a demonstration against the tariffs applied to the cattle imports from Argentina.[1][2]
- ^ (in Spanish) Primeros movimientos sociales chileno (1890–1920). Memoria Chilena.
- ^ Orlove, Benjamin S. 1997. "Meat and Strength: The Moral Economy of a Chilean Food Riot". Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 12, Issue 2, pp. 234–268.
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