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Protesting Chilean students occupy main Santiago university despite arrests
Following over a hundred arrests made on Thursday and clashes with police, students in Santiago occupied on Friday the central building of the University of Chile, the country’s most important higher education facility, as the demands to the government over education reform ensue. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWhy aren't these kids at home playing with their playstation?
Aug 18th, 2012 - 02:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Stubborn little trouble makers, and I thought todays youth didn't care about anything. As much as I don't like their tactics and their disruption to everyday life you gotta hand it to them, they are true believers. They just won't give up.
The little bastards are breaking the law; put them in jail for a few nights. Better yet, where the hell are the parents on this matter. My parents would have kicked my ass if I were to be rioting like them. Put them in jail, fine them, and then release them to their parents. You can't be above the law unless your life or property is at risk.
Aug 18th, 2012 - 03:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Students see these as social gatherings and they quickly become habit forming. They do not, after all, have homes to maintain or jobs to go to.
Aug 18th, 2012 - 04:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Which would you rather do, go to lectures and work hard or hang out with your friends being 'radical'. They made their point and it is time to break the habit.
Solidarity to the students. Looks like they won't go away and Pinera won't be able to ignore them, no?
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Aug 19th, 2012 - 06:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is just an offensive to affect the next mayor´s elections on October....Gabriel Boric (born i Punta Arenas, unfortunately), one of the student´s leaders, unveil their deep reasons for the present campaing.....to effect the political elections (“funar” as is called in spanish) to obtain selfish political benefits because Piñera and his Ministers had been growing up in the last three month polls demonstrating that people had been understanding the good reality of the country compared with the neighborhood and even with other countries outside our continent.....(Argentina, the best bad example)....This is not for better education systems, better ammounts of cash, etc....This is just a rooster´s fight to keep hidden all the successful management that has leade the Gvt. to put us as one of the best countries even after hearthquake and the hardest political opposition ever saw......Thought the authorities must take the “kids” must be detained and put on work to repair all the damages they had provoked and on their parents cost.....If not, jail for them as long as it would be necessary to learn that their right to protest finish when it crash with the right of the others to have the education they want and the law assure....Of course, the best students are not the strikers ones.....the best students just want to be taught, but the worst just want to waist their oppotunity doing nothing good or worse doing evils....
Aug 19th, 2012 - 07:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BAMF Paraguay -- another British false flagger?
Aug 19th, 2012 - 07:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 04 & 5 @ You both explain why Argentina is as is this years.......No more comment needed....
Aug 19th, 2012 - 08:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 07 @ Not, just a Paraguayan clever poster.....
I really doubt it. We never had a Paraguayan poster before. Too convenient a time for one to emerge now, spouting the same talking points about Mercosur as Mercopress.
Aug 19th, 2012 - 08:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#9 Or he might be paid by the Franco government =)
Aug 19th, 2012 - 10:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 09 @ Why we can´t have Paraguayan posters if we have from any other Mercosur country at the moment..? May be the treatment that the remainder Mercosur countries gave to Paraguay have driven this new poster to offer us his opinions... very clever, BTW....!!!
Aug 20th, 2012 - 01:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 010 @ Is that what is happening with you, Argentine guys...? You know that “the thieve judge under his own condition” It won´t be strange that the corrupt Argentine Gvt. has been paying some hard defenders posters for its “regresives” policies applied over the regular citiziens....Anyone could think that way reading some post written too hard, even poisoned, against the others that have a different point of view.
Be respectful to the others if you want be respected.....!!!
@4 And so BK supports rioters, anarchists, criminals.
Aug 20th, 2012 - 03:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@7 Forgetit87 Another faggot?
@9 Forgetit87 Sh*t in a basket. With faggots?
@10 Are you paid by the argie government? Or are you just on a promise that you will be allowed to slurp CFK's ar*e? You really are a disgusting little pervert. Did I read somewhere you are in Scotland? Mostly pervs in Scotland. More than half the Scottish population are perverts. Be shot of the perverts soon, with any luck.
#11 I was being facetious =)
Aug 20th, 2012 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#12 Not if the Olympics have anything to do with it, us Scottish “pervs” look like we'll vote to stay in Team GB. I know I will, even if that means continuing to share a country with you =)
#7, Never been to the other side of the pond...though I do think the Brits will be dominating in Europe after a few years of hardship; austerity that they just did was impressive and I have to congratulate them. If they can lower their taxes/regulations and continue to lower their debt, it could be a real golden time for them. Wealth is looking for somewhere to go to and they may be the best choice.
Aug 20th, 2012 - 11:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#10, The new president of Paraguay has done some good things (liberation of bio technology for farmers, pushing for titling of land that is under the campesinos control, fired about a 1000 workers from Itaipu), but I think the guy sucks like most other politicians. He signed into law the Personal Income Tax; that alone makes him equal to the devil to me.
EVERYONE - Most students are not out protesting, either because their parents won't let them, or they don't agree with the reasons of the protest. I mean think about it, there must be a few hundred thousand students in Chile, how many are out protesting? Look at it as any other business; if I own a store, and my clients don't like my product, they can go somewhere else. But for them to come over and invade my property, vandalize it, and demand a change in my product, doesn't seem very appropriate. So why is this any different???? Because it is education? You don't need education to move up in life people. Look at the millions of Mexicans in the USA. Damn it, look at ALL of the immigrants that have gone to the USA in all of its history. Look at the Brazilians that came to Paraguay, most couldn't even read!! and they are millionaires now!!! Education is a luxury, not a God given right.
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