{"id":30654,"date":"2012-08-13T09:55:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T16:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=30654"},"modified":"2012-08-13T10:00:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T17:00:45","slug":"after-more-than-a-year-student-protests-in-chile-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/08\/13\/after-more-than-a-year-student-protests-in-chile-persist\/","title":{"rendered":"After More than a Year, Student Protests in Chile Persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-081312\/2012_08_13_niner.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-081312\/2012_08_13_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/chile_student_protests.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Student protesters in Chile clashed with police last Wednesday as a march in the Chilean capital Santiago turned violent, resulting in 75 arrests and dozens of injuries. Unrest has gripped the South American nation for more than a year, when Chilean youth, angry about high tuition and inequities in the country\u2019s education system, took to the streets in May 2011. <\/p>\n<p>Students complain that the increasing privatization of Chile\u2019s higher education has resulted in skyrocketing costs and a two-tiered system of private and \u201ctraditional\u201d universities that have reinforced the divide between rich and poor. Despite a stilted dialogue between the government and students, few if any compromises have been reached.  Center-right President Sebastian Pinera, elected in 2010, has resisted student demands for education to be recognized as a right, instead proposing tax reforms and reductions on student loan interest rates. Pinera, who amassed a fortune of $2.4 billion in the credit card industry, is the first conservative president since the end of the Pinochet regime in 1990.  The ongoing turmoil has taken a toll on Pinera\u2019s popularity with his approval ratings falling to as low as 33% in May due to his perceived mishandling of the student protests.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Boric, President of the University of Chile Student Federation, said about the Wednesday demonstration,\u201d[t]his is the march of the anguish of families who do not know how to pay for the education of their children; [o]f the students who have been expelled from colleges and universities to organize; [o]f students in technical institutions left to fend to the market. This is the march of Chileans who know that education is not &#8220;investing in people&#8221; but to form citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Matt Niner, Editor-in-Chief of I Love Chile News, the only English-language news outlet in Chile reporting on the student protests<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ILoveChile.cl\">www.ILoveChile.cl<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student protesters in Chile clashed with police last Wednesday as a march in the Chilean capital Santiago turned violent, resulting in 75 arrests and dozens of injuries. Unrest has gripped the South American nation for more than a year, when Chilean youth, angry about high tuition and inequities in the country\u2019s education system, took to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}