In 2011 university students as well as high school students began to protest, demanding free and public education. They want to demand an end to privatizes education. The student movement has historical roots coming from the dictatorship.During Pinochets dicatorship he practiced the free market economy and privatised undemocratic period. He was given a huge amount of funds and others left with little money and so this lead to the mis distrubution of funds and wealth that exist in Chile today. Public health in Chile was free that is until Pinochet came to power. Medical students in Chile pay some of the highest tuition's in the world. In general Chile Universities have some of the highest fees in the world, yet many of its people have little money or are poor. I know I keep referring back to the dictatorship, but these issues always seem to continuously be connected in one form or another to the dictatorship and the violation of human rights).
April 2013: More than 10,000 Students Protest in the streets of Chile. Police fire back with tear gas and water cannons to break up the marches. Eight officers were injured and 109 protesters detained. As we learned in class, Chile had an extremely high educational rates, yet students claim that its system is extremely unfair. The middle and upper class students have some of the best education yet the poor have some the worst access to education. These students have been protesting for 2 years and yet nothing has gotten done. Local media said that they believed that this march was the first biggest march since two decades ago. Authorities estimated 80,000 protesters and a total of 150,000 student leaders that participated in the march, but in total there were more than 250,000 protesters in this march. Overall the march was pretty peaceful, that is until the tension between the police and students heated up. The student movement has been the biggest since 1990 when Chile regained democracy.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22118682
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This qoute from Allende seemed proper for the Student Movement, here is my rough translation, "Being young and not being a revolutionry is a biological contradiction" Chilean students and the tinoamericanos they were hand in hand, mandandirun dirun din. In this beautiful garden, to odds and dinosaurs, the young revolucionaurios they have finally said enough. Stop it! That comes the guanaco and behind the Paços the pump forward, the paralyzing, also the purgative and the hilarious, ay which are all the same These watchmen The young secondary and the University with the proletarian they want a revolution. [Chorus] Mobile oil special Mobile oil special Mobile oil special... In a University fight for reform to put in the last the blessed and the national. We are reformers, the revolutionaries the anti-imperialist University! |
Hi Liliana,
ReplyDeleteFantastic post, great depth! (I need to spruce my posts up!!!) I had no idea about the cost of university education for Chilean residents. It is so disappointing when people in power refuse to think beyond their immediate circle. Education is so liberating, and powerful; which is undoubtedly a potential reason to keep it out of reach.
Teri!!!!! Thank You! I thought that was crazy. As we learned in class Chile has always been ahead in the game in education, but with these tuition rates how can students attend universities; when they attend school for 5 years and it takes them up to a decate plus years to pay off their debt
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