Well I don't know if the news is known outside Chile, but what its going on here has become pretty big.
Everything started with a Student Strike and the Hydroelectric on the south. Now everything has become bigger, the Students are being supported by the Teachers Association and Estatal Universities. The LGBTQ has added to the strike to fight the Gay Marriage thing that the president said it was gonna fight for, yet has done nothing for. The Central Workers Federation also joined the strike (those are workers). There are also Chilean Natives (Araucanos) who are adding to the strike and also making terrorist attacks on the south. There are also demands for solutions to the problem of the earthquake damage. We still have a big number of families without homes. The things keep getting bigger and bigger, the government is against the wall, and they have lost a lot of power.
The Minister Joaquin Lavin was banned from any talk with the students, because he is making money from the education; he is using the University as a real estate franchise. And there is a demand to use the money of the copper for the education (a law made by Pinochet put most of that money towards the Military Organism).
The demand of the Students are: Changes on the Constitution, Change on organic laws (made by Pinochet), Free Education (mostly to buffer the spending on education), Reconstruction of Schools, and the post-earthquake situation.
http://www.juventudrebelde.co.cu/int...nues-in-chile/
So yeah, everything is getting pretty cool in here.
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