Southern Cone
Chile: students reject government’s new tax law
Chilean high school students occupied at least 10 public high schools in a continuation of protests for educational reform that started more than a year ago.
Tag: student protests
Southern Cone
Chile: students occupy schools to demand reform
Students occupied public high schools in Santiago in the latest protest against the privatization of Chile’s educational system that started under the Pinochet dictatorship.
The Caribbean
Puerto Rico: new law to ‘intimidate’ unions and students
Puerto Rican legal experts say that a revised Penal Code that Gov. Luis Fortuño that signed into law last month dramatically increases penalties for civil disobedience.
Central America
Honduras: students demand transportation subsidy
A total of 25 high school students from the Honduras Technical Institute in Tegucigalpa were arrested when the National Police broke up a protest with clubs and tear gas.
Central America
Guatemala: students resist education ‘reform’
Student protesters clashed with police in Guatemala’s capital after students occupied several campuses to oppose a right-wing “reform” of the country’s educational system.
Iran
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As in the Venezuela crisis, Donald Trump, the great enthusiast for dictators, is making a cynical pretense of concern for democracy in Iran. Fortunately, his latest bit of exploitation of the Iranian protesters has blown up in his face. Noting the anniversary of the 1979 revolution, he issued a tweet featuring a meme with an image of a student protester from the 2017 anti-austerity uprising and the words: "40 years of corruption. 40 years of repression. 40 years of terror. The regime in Iran has produced only #40YearsofFailure." Now, the courageous photographer who snapped the image at the University of Tehran in December 2017, Yalda Moayeri, comes forward to express her outrage at its co-optation by Trump. Alas, Masih Alinejad, the Iranian-American feminist who last week met with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, seems not to get how she is endangering opposition activists in Iran, allowing the regime to paint them as pawns of imperialism. (Image via @realDonaldTrump)