With a giant march for free higher education, the student protest movement is getting back much of the drive it had two years ago—and the politicians are paying attention.
Sixty people were arrested as Chilean students marked the beginning of the school year with a new march against the privatized system left by Gen. Pinochet.
Teachers’ college students march 50 kilometers to protest new requirements for teachers; meanwhile, two grassroots leaders are murdered in just three days.
Protesters charge agents repeatedly attacked, beat and arrested peaceful demonstrators and bystanders while failing to arrest the people who had been engaged in vandalism.
Security forces mixed it up with protesters both in Sudan, hit by a wave of student unrest, and in South Sudan’s West Bahr el-Ghazal state, where 10 were killed by army troops.
Protests against Enrique Peña Nieto during his inauguration quickly turned into violent clashes between police and demonstrators that disrupted much of downtown Mexico City.
Anti-Rwanda protests were held across the Democratic Republic of Congo after Rwanda-backed rebels took the eastern city of Goma. UN “peacekeepers” failed to defend the city.
Students paralyzed much of downtown Port-au-Prince with a week of protests after a police agent shot a student dead during a university function.
Dominicans continue to protest at home and abroad against a package of tax increases supposedly intended to fight a $4.7 billion fiscal deficit.
Gov. Luis G. Fortuño conceded defeat in his bid for a second four-year term, but his allies claimed statehood supporters had won in a referendum held the same day.
A medical student was shot dead as police attempted to break up a demonstration by students at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) protesting a “fiscal reform.”
Hundreds of federal and state police ended student occupations at three teachers’ colleges in the southwestern Mexican state of Michoacán, arresting 176.
