Great You've downloaded this edition of assignment from the BBC World Service.

Although it may not sound like it, Santiago is my home.

I'm married to a Chilean and our two teenage children go to school here.

And this is what I've learned in these turbulent past few months.

There's a younger generation determined to teach us a whole new set of rules,

even if it gets messy along the way.

So stay with me to hear their stories.

I'm sorry to say this but it was beautiful. I was out on the streets of

Sant'Iao everything was on fire. There were people of all different ages

banging their saucepins. They were angry but at the same time happy.

Beautiful, says Pamello Munoz, a 20-year-old physics student describing the protests

and riot that dominated Santiago

in the months before the arrival of coronavirus.

I'm Jane Chambers and this week's assignment on the BBC World Service

features some of the young people demanding radical social change in Chile.

The demonstrations began back in October when the government announced a rise in Metrofares.

The Council October, the day that as a student I've been waiting for, after so many years.

It was the day we were all fighting the same thing. We refused to pay to go

on the medro because we'd had enough. People were jumping the turnstars because they're

a physical example of the repression the government imposed on us.

Metro stations were destroyed buses torched and shops looted in Santiago,

the unrest spreading to communities across Chile.

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