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CHILE - WORKERS - EDUCATION - STRIKE - PROTEST

CHILE - WORKERS - EDUCATION - STRIKE - PROTEST
Riot police officers arrest a student in Santiago, Chile, on August 24, 2011 during a 48-hour national strike, the first to hit Sebastian Piñera's government, convened by the largest workers union in the South American country with some 780,000 members. The reform protest, spurred by the education demands, will also include hospitals and emergency services, whose personnel are expected to only attend emergency shifts during the strike. Union officials also said taxi drivers and an associations of truck drivers had joined the industrial action. Marches and rolling demonstrations by students demanding far-reaching education reforms and dismissing the government's latest plan to resolve the weeks-old crisis have continued for months now. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI
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