Student Protest

Santiago

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August 12th 2011
Thurs Aug 11th Headed for the Metro on Tuesday morning to get our bearings. Hopped out in dowtown Santiago – will we go left or right?? Well, we went left to start with but then ‘short cut Shane’ changed his instinctive compass and we walked right….right toward the student protests! The police riot trucks line the city street, police are armed and in groups on every corner, and the sho ... read more

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Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more