Abstract
Students in Chile have led a major student activist movement focusing on issues of tuition costs, debts, and higher education policy. This article analyzes the causes for the activism and what has happened to the movement in recent months.
Highlights
In Chile, as in most of Latin America, university student protests have been a staple of the social movement’s scenario
After the beginning of the academic year in March, Chilean university and high school students took their grievances to the streets and unleashed what the leaders of the movement like to describe as the largest popular demonstrations since the return to democracy, in 1990
A novelty first emerged in 2006, when public high school students, demanding better education in the public sector, went on strike and barricaded themselves in dozens of schools—effectively interrupting classes for thousands in several of the main cities of Chile, bringing down the Minister of Education, and turning the quality of education into a political crisis that lasted for several months
Summary
In Chile, as in most of Latin America, university student protests have been a staple of the social movement’s scenario. After the beginning of the academic year in March, Chilean university and high school students took their grievances to the streets and unleashed what the leaders of the movement like to describe as the largest popular demonstrations since the return to democracy, in 1990.
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