Chilean students clash with police (video)

Thousands of Chilean students marched through the streets on Thursday to demand that Chile's government change the public state education system. The cops responded with water cannon and police batons.

The Santiago Times says: "Unlike many other Latin American countries, Chile has one of the most privately-funded higher education systems in the world. Chilean university fees are among the world’s highest as compared to per capita gross domestic product (GDP). According to Times Higher Education, the fees for a public regional university in Chile are about US$3,200. The prestigious public school Universidad de Chile has fees of around US$8,000 and large private universities can go as high as US$9,600." These are the results of the decades rule of the former US backed Pinochet government.

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