Last Thursday in Santiago thousands of high school and
university students marched to express their frustration because the government
doesn’t give an answer to their demands. Similar protests happened in cities
like Concepcion and Valparaiso. This protest was organized by the Coordinating Assembly for Secondary Students
(ACES), the National Coordination of Secondary Students (CONES) and supported
by the umbrella organization the Confederation of Chilean Students (Confech).
Students estimate 70 000 protesters for the education
in Chile. Indeed they protest to be heard by the congress, because of the congressional debate over the 2013 budget witch
students insist must have a special focus on education. By the other hand the
administration has said it plans for education spending to reach a record of
twenty percent of the budget in education.
Anyways after a
while the violence broke out and the police engulfed the crowd by a medley of
tear gas and water cannons. Heated interchanges continued for several hours.
After that the crowd was dispersed along side streets because they couldn’t
continue along the designated route.
Many humans
rights observer like Elisa Disqueto were present and denounced many abuses.
Another humans rights observer Javiera Campos Menendez said that there were three completely illegal
arrest of protesters for no motive.
To conclude the police have arrested 106 protesters
and the majority of them were minors, so in the most cases it was unfair.
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