Reuters ICYMI - From Myanmar to Chile, citizens make their vision for the future clear

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Reuters ICYMI - From Myanmar to Chile, citizens make their vision for the future clear

From Josh London, CMO, Reuters

Sithu Maung, an elected member of parliament in the 2020 election, aims a gun at a training camp in an area controlled by ethnic Karen rebels, Karen State, Myanmar, September 12, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

Reuters journalists captured rare footage of some of the men and women in Myanmar who left their lives as civilians to become guerilla fighters after the military coup in February. "Taking up arms is the only option for us" said a 34-year-old former fitness trainer, a new recruit who has a tattoo of ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi across his back. 

On the other side of the world, democracy thrived. The streets of Santiago were filled with supporters of Gabriel Boric celebrating the Chilean leftist's victory in Chile's presidential runoff election. The election was the most divisive in decades, with both candidates posing diametrically opposing alternatives to the centrist political mainstream that has dominated Chile since the return to democracy in 1990.

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Published December 22, 2021

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