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Chile: Students Clash With Police, Protest Neoliberal Education Law

Per the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Chile has the fourth-most-expensive university system in the world. 

Nearly 100 Chilean university students took to streets yesterday in front of the Constitutional court to protest court's decision allowing universities to charge tuition and to denounce excessive police force against student protesters. 

Per the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Chile has the fourth-most-expensive university system in the world.Higher education in the Latin American was free in the country until 1981, when Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship paved the way for the emergence of private universities with no constraints on tuition fees. 

The students were protesting the Constitutional Tribunal ’s decision to overturn the recently hard passed Higher Education Law which would have made Chilean university education free. 

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A student is detained outside the Constitutional Tribunal during a protest demanding an end to profiteering in the education system in Santiago, Chile March 27, 2018.
A student is detained outside the Constitutional Tribunal during a protest demanding an end to profiteering in the education system in Santiago, Chile March 27, 2018. Photo:Reuters
Students chain themselves to a fence of a window at the Constitutional Tribunal during a protest to request an end to profiteering in the education system in Santiago, Chile
Students chain themselves to a fence of a window at the Constitutional Tribunal during a protest to request an end to profiteering in the education system in Santiago, Chile Photo:Reuters
Students are dispersed by riot policemen as they hold banners reading
Students are dispersed by riot policemen as they hold banners reading "Chile already decided! No more profiteering in the education" outside the Constitutional Tribunal during a protest demanding an end to profiteering in the education system in Santiago, Chile. Photo:Reuters
Students shout slogans outside the Constitutional Tribunal during a protest demanding an end to profiteering in the education system in Santiago, Chile March 27, 2018
Students shout slogans outside the Constitutional Tribunal during a protest demanding an end to profiteering in the education system in Santiago, Chile March 27, 2018 Photo:Reuters
A student holds a banner reading
A student holds a banner reading "Chile already decided!" as he chains himself to a fence of a window at the Constitutional Tribunal during a protest demanding an end to profiteering in the education system in Santiago, Chile March 27, 2018. Photo:Reuters
Students are dispersed by riot policemen as they hold banners reading
Students are dispersed by riot policemen as they hold banners reading "Chile already decided! No more profiteering in the education" outside the Constitutional Tribunal during a protest demanding an end to profiteering in the education system in Santiago, Chile March 27, 2018. Photo:Reuters
Published 29 March 2018
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