Chile: protesters light bonfires and clash with police despite cabinet reshuffle

Fresh upheaval erupts shortly after president Sebastían Piñera announces firing of hardline officialsFresh street battles and fires have broken out in downtown Santiago just hours after Chile’s embattled president, Sebastían Piñera, fired hardline members of his cabinet in an attempt to defuse the country’s biggest political crisis since the return to democracy in 1990.Bands of protesters lit bonfires along the central Alameda Avenue and clashed with riot