The protests were initially sparked by a now-suspended lengthen in metro fares, but grew to absorb wider grievances over living charges and inequality.
Chile's center-right President Sebastian Pinera, a billionaire businessman, trounced the opposition in the most recent 2017 election, dealing the center-left ruling coalition its biggest loss since the country's return to democracy in 1990.
This measure comes a day after Pinera said he had "asked all ministers to resign in order to form a new government".
At the same time, Piñera has asked his ministers to resign and is preparing a change of cabinet in an attempt to change his image, with which he intends to clean up the repression, deaths and possible torture that the United Nations, by the way, is going to investigate.
The more than one million people who took to the streets of Santiago and other cities on Friday represented a range of political backgrounds and hailed from all social classes.
Chile is one of Latin The US's wealthiest worldwide locations but also one of its most unequal - it has the worst stages of earnings equality among the 36 member global locations of the Organisation for Financial Co-operation and Style (OECD).
One of the most controversial members of the current cabinet is Interior Minister Andres Chadwick, the president's cousin.
Pinera did not announce the specifics of the reshuffle, nor did he say when he would announce them.
Copper miners in Chile, the world's top producer, said the riots had mostly spared production but problems persisted with port facilities, public transport and supply chains.
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The last time a similar protest took place in the city was in 1988 when a march was staged against the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
"People are getting killed just for being students", said 17-year-old Jordan Vicencio.
At least 19 people have died in the turmoil that has swept the South American nation.
By early evening there had been no signs of violence or clashes with the security forces, who maintained a significant but low-key presence inside paint-spattered and stone-dented armoured vehicles parked in side streets.
Throughout the day Saturday, protesters gathered in Santiago's central plazas, rallying peacefully but in much smaller numbers than on Friday night, when more than 1 million people took to the streets. "We've all changed", said Pinera on Twitter following the peak of the rallies.
In the initial spasm of violence metro stations were destroyed, supermarkets torched and looted, traffic lights and bus shelters smashed and countless street barricades erected and set alight.
The human rights team plan to spend a month in Chile investigating the allegations.
The president on Wednesday announced a package of reforms aimed at ending the protests, including increasing the basic pension and minimum wage. Looting and arson have been widespread. "With unity and help from God, we will walk the path to a Chile better for everyone".
Chile's human rights institute the INDH has confirmed five of the deaths were at the hands of armed forces, and more than 300 of the detainees are minors.
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