Student protests in Chile

The President Sebastian Piñera is facing huge difficulties this year. As of now the citizen disapproval rate is at 56%* and the huge ongoing student protests are only making things worse. According to the guardian.co.uk, today only 10% of Chilean students access schools that will provide them real opportunities for the future.

The students are demanding improvements to the education system, they want affordable education at high school and college level.  The young population is very unsatisfied with inequality of opportunities, with a small part of the population holding all the privileges.

The President response to these protests that have been going on for months and that had more than 100.000 people participating was a $4 billion package in education reforms. The students were not satisfied, they want deeper changes in the educational system.

The demonstrations are mostly peaceful, and let us hope that they will stay this way, because we have seen in the last weeks confront between the police and the students.

Watch the video below to see the faces of this protest and for further information.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/06/20116292343982510.html
(released on June 02)

*Sources:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/22/students-march-chile-education-protests
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/americas/Chile-Proposes-Education-Reforms-Following-Student-Protests-125069309.html