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Article: 2nd LD: Over 100 arrested during student protests in Chile
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- April 24, 2008
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2nd LD: Over 100 arrested during student protests in Chile
SANTIAGO, April 24 (Xinhua) -- More than 100 people were arrested
Thursday during protests in Chile convoked by a student
organization, police said.
The Association of High School Students (AES) was boycotting the
Organic Education Law (LGE), which will replace the one inherited
from the country's military regime, and urged the government to
increase educational budget.
The protests were especially large in the Chilean capital
Santiago and the southern city of Valdivia.
In Santiago, protestors, mostly aged ...