{"id":14109,"date":"2011-09-27T11:41:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T08:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=14109"},"modified":"2011-09-27T11:41:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T08:41:16","slug":"student-protests-suppressed-in-chile-14109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/student-protests-suppressed-in-chile-14109\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile Student Protests Suppressed by police force"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chile Student Protests: We do need better education system<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chilean police suppressed 2,000 students protests who were demonstrating against the closure of schools sanctioned by a mayor of a Santiago district.<\/h1>\n

Tens of thousands of students and teachers took to Santiago streets yesterday in a growing confrontation with the government over education spending that has seen four months of marches.<\/p>\n

Police used water cannon against he demonstrators and arrested 16 young people in an operation that was described as excessive and unjustified attack. The peaceful protest took place against an order by the mayor of the municipality of Providencia who closed five high schools that were peacefully occupied by students as part of the national movement to demand free public education. The demonstration was part of the biggest protest movement Chile has seen since General Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship came to an end in 1990.\u00a0Radio Cooperativa also aired testimonies of Chilean teenagers who reported having been manhandled by the police.<\/p>\n

Camila Vallejo on\u00a0Chile Student Protests : Education System in Chile is poor<\/h2>\n

The student leader, 23-year-old Camila Vallejo told international news agencies that frustrations with the poor state of the education system in Chile ever since the Pinochet years had been building for a while.
\n“The people understand that the crisis in education is in fact a crisis of the model installed under the dictatorship. It’s not against today’s government, but against the neo-liberal model,” she expressed.
\nCamila Vallejo stated the conditions for learning in Chile were a woeful contrast to the general image of the South American country as a modern and successful economy in Latin America. “Our model dates back 30 years and it has created a lot of inequalities. It hasn’t guaranteed quality of education, social integration, making citizens aware and responsible,” she continued.<\/p>\n

Dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile still effecting Chilean social life<\/h3>\n

The forces charged against the demonstration at the end of a march by students, teachers and parents in rejection of the school closure ruled by the mayor of Providencia, Cristi\u00e1n Labbe, who is a retired coronel of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). But Chile’s current President Sebastian Pinera, a centre-right billionaire who came to power in March 2010, stubbornly rejected the protesting student and teachers’ demands.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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