Qualla: Meat Riots https://qualla.com/meat-riots en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/9/meat-riots-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Meat Riots https://qualla.com/meat-riots Meat Riots: Introduction https://qualla.com/meat-riots/ Photo credit Jorge Barrios, Public domain. It began with the price of beef. In October 1905, the working families of Santiago could no longer afford the meat their labor was supposed to buy, and so tens of thousands of them gathered, peacefully, to ask the government for relief. What they got instead, over five days that Chileans still call the Semana Roja, the Red Week, was gunfire. By the time it ended, somewhere between two hundred and two hundred fifty people lay dead. They were laborers, tradesmen, and their families, and most of them never raised anything more dangerous than a petition.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/9/meat-riots-wp/66j9-meat-riots-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Meat Riots: The Cost of a Meal https://qualla.com/meat-riots/ Photo credit Jorge Barrios, Public domain. The trouble had simple roots. For decades, beef came to Chile the hard way, hauled by cart and driven on foot over the high Andean passes from the Argentine pampas. When a railroad linked Buenos Aires to Mendoza in 1885, cattle could move cheaply, and meat prices in Chile fell. T...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/9/meat-riots-wp/66j9-meat-riots-the-cost-of-a-meal.mp3 0:06 2 full Meat Riots: The March on La Moneda https://qualla.com/meat-riots/ Photo credit Jorge Barrios, Public domain. On October 22, they came together at La Alameda, the broad avenue that still runs like a spine through the city. The gathering was enormous and organized: ten neighborhood associations, alongside forty-one trade unions and mutual aid societies, the self-built institutions through...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/9/meat-riots-wp/66j9-meat-riots-the-march-on-la-moneda.mp3 0:06 3 full Meat Riots: A Misunderstanding Turns to Blood https://qualla.com/meat-riots/ Photo credit Jorge Barrios, Public domain. The president was not at the palace. A small delegation was directed to his nearby residence, where leaders were let inside to present their petition and talk. The conversation stretched on. Outside, the vast crowd knew none of this. As the hours passed, a rumor moved through the...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/9/meat-riots-wp/66j9-meat-riots-a-misunderstanding-turns-to-blood.mp3 0:06 4 full Meat Riots: The Red Week https://qualla.com/meat-riots/ Photo credit Jorge Barrios, Public domain. Over the days that followed, the army was turned loose on the city, and the killing was not careful. The dead were carried to the Santiago morgue in numbers the city had rarely seen, and historians who later combed those records counted the toll in the hundreds. More than five hu...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/9/meat-riots-wp/66j9-meat-riots-the-red-week.mp3 0:06 5 full Meat Riots: What the City Remembers https://qualla.com/meat-riots/ Photo credit Jorge Barrios, Public domain. The Meat Riots became a turning point in Chile's long, often violent reckoning between labor and the state. They were among the first great explosions of an organized working class that would not be quiet, and they foreshadowed darker massacres still to come in the mining towns o...

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