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Brazil & Southern Cone - August 2011 (ISSN 1741-4431)
CHILE: Government fails to defuse protests
The authorities are showing signs of panicking over the three months of protests by school and university students against the government’s timid proposed reforms to the country’s education system. The protests are now the most sustained and the biggest since the restoration of democracy in 1990. Arguably, the right-wing government led by President Sebastián Piñera is being criticised unfairly, because, unlike the previous left-of-centre Concertación governments (which did nothing to reform the voucher-system bequeathed by the Pinochet regime [1973-1990]) it is at least trying to improve the country’s educational system.
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