CHILE: 100,000 March Peacefully In Santiago's Freezing Rain...For Education Reform.

      AFP

     A march in Santiago organized by students, teachers and labor unions calling for an end to private profiteering from the nation's education system...was peaceful...as some 100,000 gathered in a freezing rain.
     The students are calling for free education...similar to that available in Argentina and Mexico.
     A labor union leader says educational interest rates are usurious...returning 27% on equity for banks.

     Changes in education funding were altered to favor private enterprise during the right-wing dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.