The Chacarita Bone Collectors
On a typical autumn day in March, first year student, Martín Gimenez*, began his medical career at a cemetery, looking for a human skeleton. Gingerly stepping between empty graves and discarded bones,...
View ArticleMarch in Chile for More Reforms
Yesterday 20,000 thousand people participated in a march organised by the Metropolitan Coordination of Secondary Students, the Associate of Parents and the college of Teachers of Chile. The protest...
View ArticleChilean Police Force Chief Resigns
The director general of the Chilean police force Eduardo Gordon has today stepped down, just a week after a teenage protestor was murdered by officers under his watch. Widespread allegations of...
View ArticleCross-Continental March for Free Education
Students from various Latin American countries joined a continental march yesterday for the right to free public education. The movement was organised by the Continental Organisation of Latin American...
View ArticleChile: Massive Student Protest Turns Violent
Violence erupted on Tuesday in Santiago, Chile, as student protestors and police clashed during one of the largest marches in recent weeks. According to protest organisers and police, between 50,000...
View ArticleColombia: Naked Students Take to the Streets in Protest
Plaza de Bolívar, the site of protest (Photo: Wikicommons) Yesterday 3,000 students took to the streets of Colombian capital Bogotá to call for changes in higher education financing. Many of these...
View ArticleChile: Teachers Strike against Education Reform Bill
‘Students and teachers united in the struggle’ (photo courtesy of Colegio de Profesores) This morning, thousands of Chilean teachers began an indefinite strike in protest of the government’s proposed...
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