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.