Heres an article I wrote on the prospects for Chiles student movement and the presidency of Michelle Bachelet, who was inaugurated yesterday for her second term in office. Many students growing up over the past decade in post-dictatorship Chile have demanded more from democracy than their parents, and pushed for changes that expanded the discourse about the type of country people wanted to build and how they could build it – in the classroom, the street and the government. After taking office as Chiles youngest member of congress, student leader Camila Vallejo said she would keep one foot in the government and the other in the street. ~Ben Dangl
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:18:22 +0000