That article was written by John Bartlett, a stringer who writes for various “progressive” publications, feeding biased news to the comfortably-distant “woke” allowing them to solidarize without any personal inconvenience.
In that article, he is recycling the same propaganda mentioned briefly here
I never seriously questioned the integrity of the major news sources until I started reading the bs they published during the estallido social. Maybe they get away with it because Chile is far away and relatively unimportant, and hence escapes closer scrutiny.