Meat riots

Meat riots

Dragoons roaming the streets
Date22–27 October, 1905
Location
Result Protests repressed, meeting repressed, Chilean government victory
Belligerents
Workers protesters

Chile Government of Chile

Commanders and leaders
Germán Riesco
Roberto Silva Renard
Casualties and losses
230 killed 20 killed

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]

  1. ^ (in Spanish) Primeros movimientos sociales chileno (1890–1920). Memoria Chilena.
  2. ^ Orlove, Benjamin S. 1997. "Meat and Strength: The Moral Economy of a Chilean Food Riot". Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 12, Issue 2, pp. 234–268.