Chile's central bank announced Thursday a $20 billion injection into the economy aimed at curbing the plummeting value of the peso.
The economy has been battered by the country's worst social unrest in three decades, as well as a fall in the price of copper, of which Chile is the world's leading producer.
The peso lost 1.1 percent of its value on Thursday, reaching a record low for the second day in a row and closing at 828.36 pesos to the dollar. That followed a 1.6 percent drop on Wednesday, when the peso hit 812 to the dollar.
The peso has lost about 15 percent of its value since October 18, when violent protests broke out over social and economic inequality.
Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2019
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