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Normally WSJ coverage of LatAm...is way ahead of the curve. Now even better than the NYTimes' tag team approach.
Not so with this tardy mini-profile of Camila Vallejo (above) and synopsis of 3 mos. of Chile's student protests.
But Moffett does provide fresh quotes.
The GUARDIAN/UK beat ALL the other media outlets on her first major profile.
In fact...a link here to its recent profile of Vallejo...got hundreds of page views...with a surprising number from...Turkey.
http://thehypervigilantobserver.blogspot.com/2011/08/chile-face-of-student-revoltcamila.html
WSJ: "Vallejo, a geography major who is a member of the Chilean Communist Party, is the unlikely leader of the biggest demonstrations to hit Chile since the end of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in 1990."
"Education isn't a business," Camila Vallejo told the WSJ by phone, "but a basic right. Trickle down hasn't worked."
"We don't have the fear our parents did because we never lived in the dictatorship."
AND...FACTOID: Vallejo met in Brasilia with President Dilma Rousseff and members of Congress to discuss educational reform in Chile and Brasil.
