The Chilean government has set a one month deadline for more than 57,000 responses to be returned by the same number of 18 year old individuals for military service. Military service in Chile is not in the strictest sense mandatory for everybody except for males turning 18 years old whereupon they serve for at least one year. It is however obligatory and the military usually...

Despite warnings issued by the Chilean government that labeled protests as “illegal”, hundreds and hundreds of students along with their teachers attempted to march to the capital of Santiago and rally in the center of the city (Plaza Italia) and other cities to demand reform in Chile’s educational system. However authorities nabbed and detained several...