A perfect storm - that is what Sebastián Piñera, Chile’s president since March 2010, faced in October and November as Congress debated his government’s proposed budget for 2012.
By November, student protests, and public support for...
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October, 2011
“My parents didn’t go to university,” Monica Carvajal says as she marches through Santiago with thousands of other students. “I’m lucky, because I do. But I don’t know how I’m going to pay for it and I think it’ll be even harder for the next generation of students,...
July, 2011
Residents of Plaza Italia, the traditional gathering place in Santiago for everything from football and election celebrations to protest marches, are having a bad time. The frequency of protests - some tiny, others massive - has increased sharply this year and,...
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