President Michelle Bachelet faced her first significant protest on 8 May since taking power two months ago. Her government managed to undercut support for what was billed by social organisations as ‘the march of marches’ on 22 March, principally by dissuading students from taking part. But this time around it was unable to do so as between 40,000 and 100,000 (reflecting the disparity between the figures of the police and organisers) students from the three main university federations marched in Santiago, and seven other cities across Chile, frustrated by the lack of clarity of the reform proposals of the education minister, Nicolás Eyzaguirre. Since then the student movement has divided over whether to radicalise protest action or give the government time to react.End of preview - This article contains approximately 687 words.
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