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Chilean President to Shake Up Government Amid Protests

Associated Press

   SANTIAGO, CHILE - Chile's President Sebastian Pinera asked all his
   Cabinet members to offer their resignations Saturday as he prepared to
   shake up his government in response to a wave of protests, including
   one that drew more than a million people the day before.
   Chile's conservative president also said he might lift the state of
   emergency that has covered much of the country for the past nine days
   -- a decree that had failed to bring peace after rioting broke out in
   response to a 4-cent rise in subway fares.

   The protests rapidly expanded to cover a far wider sense of frustration
   among many Chileans who felt they have been struggling to make do as
   thewell offgrew richer.
   ``The march we all saw yesterday was a massive and peaceful march,''
   Pinera said. ``We have all heard the message. We have all changed.''

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