Mayor to press charges against the youths, accusing them of seeking “class warfare.”
Around 50 high school students occupied Santiago’s City Hall on Monday morning in a protest that ended with 44 arrests, after apparently being allowed in by municipal workers sympathetic to Chile’s student movement.
“Education is a right and we will continue the fight.” Photo courtesy of ACES/Facebook.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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