Chile
The student leader who put Chile’s government against the ropes
August 23, 2011Camila Vallejo Dowling, 23, a geography student at the University of Chile and president of the Student Federation of the same university (FECH), has become the most popular and inspiring leader of the current and massive...
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Chileans demand free education
July 21, 2011The Chilean education system has been caught in the eye of a storm driven by hundreds of thousands of students and teachers who are demanding democratic education reforms.
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Chile’s right-wing president on the ropes
July 20, 2011Right-wing President Sebastian Piñera's popularity rate is at 31 percent, down from 63 percent approval months earlier.
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Chilean Communist freed as Colombia drops charges
June 27, 2011Accused of rounding up money for the FARC, Manuel Olate was detained for three months as a first step to extradition.
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Chile seeks truth about deaths of Allende and Neruda
June 14, 2011The body of former Chilean President Salvador Allende was exhumed in May in an attempt to determine whether the democratically elected socialist president was murdered.
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