Here is an article from the NYT Magazine on Camila Vallejo, who they label as the "World's Most Glamorous Revolutionary" - and the leader of the protest movement that shattered's Chile's image as one of Latin America's political and economic success stories.
Here is a short extract:
"In what became known as the Chilean Winter, students at
university campuses and high schools across the country organized strikes,
boycotted classes and occupied buildings. The protests were the largest since
the last days of the 17-year dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who in a
1973 military coup overthrew Latin America’s first democratically elected
Marxist president, Salvador Allende. The students’ grievances echoed, somewhat,
those of their counterparts across the Mideast or in Zuccotti Park. Chile might
have the highest per capita income in the region, but in terms of distribution
of wealth, it ranks as one of the most unequal countries in the world. A
university education in Chile is proportionally the world’s most expensive:
$3,400 a year in a country where the average annual salary is about $8,500."
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