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270 students arrested in protest

by sweet east pearl | June 18, 2008 at 08:43 pm | 109 views | add comment

STUDENTS and teachers clashed with police in Chile to protest an education Bill they say doesn't go far enough to bring equal access to schooling for the poor even with a Government flush with copper dollars.

About a thousand students marched shoulder to shoulder in the nation's capital, confronting police with tear gas and water canon in the upscale Providencia neighborhood.

In Valparaiso, the port town where the national Congress is debating the controversial legislation, 10,000 teachers marched in peaceful demonstrations.

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June 18, 2008 at 08:43 pm by sweet east pearl, 109 views, add comment

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