In bid to secure money to fund free higher education.
Representatives of Chile’s student movement are seeking to reinstate the themes of tax reform and the nationalization of the country’s lucrative copper industry into the ongoing debate about the nation’s class-based education system.
Chilean students want to nationalize copper mines, like Chuquicamata pictured above, to pay the expenses of free university education. Photo by b1mbo/Flickr.Login to read more.About the writer
Joe Hinchliffe
Joe is from Brisbane, arguably the greatest city in Australia outside of Melbourne and Sydney and not including the capital, which no one outside the country has heard of anyway. He studied journalism and geography at the University of Queensland. In 2009 he left to do his last year of study on exchange at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He has lived in Santiago since mid-2010.
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