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A group of secondary students from the Secondary Students Coordinating Assembly (ACES) protested at about 9:00 a.m. this Monday. Ministry of Education.
It is a demonstration for the surrender of the Transition Test to access higher education, the process of which begins at 10:00 am today.
In the middle of the protest, some secondaries were chained at the entrance to the ministry that faces the Alameda and is closed.
ACES spokesman Marcos Fauré told Radio Bío Bío that the protest is due to the fact that the test “is segregating and discriminatory” and that the authorities have not responded to their demands regarding universal access to higher education.
“In Chile education is a business and the Government wants to perpetuate this for all eternity, “he added.
On the Mineduc and Demre proposal for hold a dialogue and thus listening to their proposals, he indicated that the idea came “too late, they are 14 years late” and that in previous meetings they have not been heard.
However, he agreed to dialogue “if they effectively guarantee that after that we will have universal and free access to higher education.”
Carabineros arrived at the place and arrested nine protesters and also to a cameraman from CNN Chile / Chilevisión.
Minutes before, individuals They lit up barricades and threw out pamphlets As a protest against the test, this was in Plaza Los Héroes, a few blocks from the Ministry of Education.
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