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August 25, 2011

Chile endures violent night amid nationwide strike

Students and workers clash with riot police during a 48-hour national strike – the first to hit Sebastian Pinera’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 association 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.

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