Tensions flared in the capital city of Chile, Santiago, as angry workers faced off with law enforcement officers.
Teachers, health workers and workers from other sectors broke pots in the streets to express their anger at what they described as the government's unequal policies that were burdening the ordinary people.
Media reports indicate that an estimated 28 people lost their lives in the raging protests that entered their fourth day.
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera made a televised speech in a bid to placate the protesters but his efforts came short as the protests grew even more intense.
In his speech, Mr Pinera acknowledged the suffering and the hardships that the ordinary Chileans were going through as he made a point of apologising to the people of Chile.
He promised to do everything within his power as the country's president to ease this suffering, including reducing the prices of medicine, and overseeing pension raises as demanded by the angry workers.
"It's true -- problems have not occurred in recent days. They have been accumulating for decades," the Head of State said in a televised address to the nation.
The protests were triggered by the government's announcement days ago that the prices of the subway tickets had been hiked.