Chile is respected for its fast-growing economy and transparent institutions, but it also has the worst inequality rate among the 34 countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and widespread protests of inequalities have harried the administrations of both Bachelet and her successor, Pinera.  Millions of Chileans have staged widespread and frequent protests demanding a wider distribution of Chile’s copper riches, free education and the return of ancestral lands to Mapuche Indians in a southern region where members of Chile’s largest indigenous group often clash with timber companies and landowners.  Article