As the long southern hemisphere summer holiday draws to an end this month, stude...
SANTIAGO - As the long southern hemisphere summer holiday draws to an end this month, students in Chile are returning to college - but not always to classes. Many are getting ready to head out into the streets and breathe new life into the protests that rocked the country last year.
One of the loudest and most influential voices pressing for change is Emilia Schneider, a transgender, feminist and militant leftist who is the leader of the Student Federation of the University of Chile , the country’s oldest student union. “We had seen years of protests in this country but the demands had not been heeded,” she said, citing the highly privatized provision of services such as health, education and pensions that had sparked a “sense of discomfort that built up over years.”
Schneider has a potent link to the country’s dark past: her great-grandfather was General Rene Schneider, a well-known figure in Chile who opposed plans for a military coup in 1970 and was killed by a far-right group.
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