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Interview with Chilean student leader Camila Vallejo: They’ll see that it’s worthwhile

November 2, 2011 By Juan Pablo Montero

She's president of the Chilean Students' Federation, and a picture of Karl Marx hangs in her office. Camila Vallejo, 23 years old, has been instrumental in propelling Chile's student movement, mobilized now for almost six months.

Amidst global Occupy movement, Chilean students show the way

October 21, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Building over five months, students there have moved from immediate demands to an overall critique of Chile's dominant political-economic system.

Chilean communists take a hit as protests mount

September 19, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

A group of 50 self proclaimed, "rebel students" on September 12 attacked the Santiago offices of the Chilean Communist Party's (CP) Central Committee.

Chile resists – students and labor join forces

August 30, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Anational strike called by the Workers' United Center of Chile (CUT), massed 400, 000 people in the capital city of Santiago and 200,000 elsewhere.

The student leader who put Chile’s government against the ropes

August 23, 2011 By Mikhail Saavedra

Camila 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...