Today we look at the Chilean students’ movement, which led last year’s
massive citizen democracy movement — the largest protests since the days
of opposition marches to General Augusto Pinochet a generation ago. For
more than a year, the movement has rallied hundreds of thousands in the
streets of Santiago and other major cities to demand greater access to
affordable university education, as well as deeper structural changes in
Chile. The country has the highest per capita income in the region, but
also one of the most unequal distributions of wealth. We are joined in
our studio by two of Chile’s most recognizable student protest leaders:
Camila Vallejo and Noam Titelman. They are in the United States, in
part, to receive the 2012 Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, which is
given by the Institute for Policy Studies. It is named for the Chilean
diplomat Orlando Letelier and his colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt, who
were murdered in Washington by agents of the U.S.-backed Pinochet regime
in September 1976.Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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