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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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John Bartlett in Santiago

Students surge back to Chile’s streets as schools remain hotbed of protest

Protesters confront the police in the context of the commemoration after the three-year anniversary of the 2019 social outbreak in Chile on 18 October.
Protesters confront the police in the context of the commemoration after the three-year anniversary of the 2019 social outbreak in Chile on 18 October. Photograph: Jose Veas/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

Amid a hail of rubble and blasts from police water cannons, Santiago’s high school students are coordinating a fresh wave of protests on the streets of Chile’s capital.

When the young protesters pour out of the city’s public high schools, hulking white police trucks inch towards them, their flanks dented and splattered with paint as rocks clatter off the grilles over their windshields.

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