What is Santa María de Iquique School Massacre?
{{Orphan|date=May 2009}} [[Image:Escuela Santa María de Iquique hacia 1907.jpg|thumb|santa María de Iquique School]] The '''Santa María de Iquique school Massacre''' was on December 21, 1907. At that time [[Chile]]'s government was led by [[Pedro Montt]]. Hundreds of workers died in the front of the school ''Santa María de Iquique''. The workers had been walking from saltpetre mines of [[Tarapacá]], [[Strike action|striking]] to get better life conditions. The strikers first went to [[San Lorenzo]], and then to [[Iquique]]. They arrived in Iquique on December 16. They stayed peacefully in the school. Military forces arrived, and without provocation General [[Silva Renard]] give the order to shoot the people there in front of school. Hundreds of people were killed. [[Category:20th century in Chile]] [[Category:1907]]