Left-wing candidate Gabriel Boric elected to lead Universidad de Chile student federation.
Camila Vallejo, the highest profile student leader in Chile and the international face of the country’s student movement of 2011, was unsuccessful in her re-election campaign for president of the Universidad de Chile student federation (Fech).
Gabriel Boric is now president-elect of the Universidad de Chile Student Federation. Photo courtesy of Creando Izquierda.Login to read more.
Camila Vallejo, the highest profile student leader in Chile and the international face of the country’s student movement of 2011, was unsuccessful in her re-election campaign for president of the Universidad de Chile student federation (Fech).
Gabriel Boric is now president-elect of the Universidad de Chile Student Federation. Photo courtesy of Creando Izquierda.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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