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Chilean Student Movement Revival

Global Voices Region: Chile

Written by Elizabeth · Translated by Peter Jones With a massive protest at the national level, the student movement [1] demanding free, quality education returned to the streets of Chile in full force. Using slogans like “and it’s going to fall, it’s going to fall, the education of Pinochet…and Bachelet,” students from throughout the country gathered April 11, 2013 in civic cen... more

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Chile:Educators and Students in the Thousands March for Education Reform

Global Voices Region: Chile

By Silvia Viñas housands of students and teachers marched on the streets of Santiago and in other cities [1]on Tuesday August 28, 2012, to demand education reform. This massive march is part of the student movement's ongoing efforts to overhaul the education system in Chile. Earlier this month, students occupying [2] schools denounced [3] [es] excessive aggression by police as they were forcibly remove... more

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Chile: Anti-Protest Law Draft Calls for Harsher Consequences

Global Voices Region: Chile

Written by Felipe Cordero Chile's Minister of Interior, Rodrigo Hinzpeter has called on the Congress to approve a law that seeks harsher punishments for protesters, renewing a debate that started in the country a year ago. The law was initially drafted after students marched through downtown Santiago on June 28, 2011, in a protest that ended with violent clashes between the Carabineros (Chile's national police) a... more

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In Chile, Nurse Expedites Organ Transport Using Twitter

Global Voices Region: Chile

Written by Elizabeth Rivera · Translated by Stephen Cairns Cristina Bizama (@cristi_enf), a nurse at Talca hospital in Chile, has devised a way to speed up the transport of organs for transplant from Talca to the capital, Santiago, some 260 kilometers away (162 miles). It all started with a tweet sent the night of April 12, 2011: Increíble, No existe forma de llevar 5 organos a scl [Santiago] In... more

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(RAW QUAKE VIDEO) 8.8-Magnitude Quake Rocks Chile…Rising Death Toll, Tsunami Watch!!!

Ctpatriot1970 Region: Chile

A  A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Chile early this morning, killing at least 78 and prompting tsunami warnings in areas as far away as the western coast of the United States. Click Here To See RAW VIDEO of Chilean Earthquake as It Happened.... Raw Footage ...... The earthquake, which hit just after 3 a.m. local time, was 64 times stronger than the one that devastated Haiti last month but was much dee... more

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In Chile, A Proper Funeral for Víctor Jara

Global Voices Region: Chile

Thirty-six years after his death, Chilean singer songwriter Víctor Jara had a proper funeral. A crowd of thousands of artists, public figures, fans and militants gathered on December 3 in Santiago [es] to pay homage to the musician, theatre director and activist who was murdered during Pinochet's military coup. The funeral was attended also by Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and Jara’s widow Joan Turn... more

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Tags: Victor Jar , Jara
 

Mysterious Ecological Disasters Bombard Chile

Hao Guang Tse Region: Chile

Chilean scientists are trying to make sense of a series of as-yet-unexplained ecological disasters. The strange occurrences started in March this year when remains of large numbers of penguins were found washed up on a beach in southern Chile. Over 1200 carcasses are believed to have been deposited on the beach. This was followed soon after by millions of sardines, found dead on a nearby stretch of coast. The unbear... more

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Chilean Student Throws Water on Education Minister

Global Voices Region: Chile

Posted by Juliana Rincón Parra to Global Voices Online In Chile, a student fed up with the repression and incarceration of participants in the protests against the new General Education Law (LGE) and the beatings and abuse sustained by her from the military during these protests complained to the Minister of Education at one of the Participatory meetings organized by the Ministry [es] to discuss the LGE, disc... more

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Nazi Hunters Pursue ‘Dr. Death’ in Chile

Finding Dulcinea Region: Chile

Posted by FindingDulcinea Staff Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff has chased reputed Nazi war criminal Aribert Heim to Chile in an attempt to bring him to justice for past crimes. Aribert Heim, known as Dr. Death, tops the charts of The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list of “Most Wanted Nazi War Criminals.” He would now be 94 years old. Holocaust survivors say that Heim tested the limits of a human pain by r... more

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Video: Political Messages in Online Music Video Stir the Population

Global Voices Region: Chile

by Juliana Rincón Parra SubVerso (SubVerse) is the artistic name of Vicente Durán, author of Inform Yourself, a political critique Hip-hop song and video distributed mainly online, which has caused a stir in the Chilean community and unleashed a flood of comments, both in favor of the message it gives of informing yourself and not taking information on TV at face value, and others lashing against certa... more

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