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This is VOA news. I'm David Byrd.
As many as a million Chileans are protesting in the capital, Santiago, in the biggest demonstrations yet since violence broke out a week ago over entrenched inequality in the South American nation.
Demonstrators waving flags, blowing whistles and horns, and wafting incense and bearing placards urging political and social change streamed through the city streets on Friday.
Also protesters tried to force their way onto the grounds of Chile's Congress in Valparaiso. Police fired tear gas to fend off hundreds of demonstrators on the perimeter as some lawmakers and administrative staff hurried out of the legislative building.

At least 19 people have died in the turmoil that has swept the South American nation. The unrest began as a protest over a 4-cent increase in subway fares and soon morphed into a larger movement over growing inequality in one of Latin America's wealthiest countries.