Chile braces for nationwide, two-day shutdown

By The Associated Press

Wed, 08/24/2011 - 12:14pm

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Chile is bracing for a nationwide, two-day shutdown as unions, students and center-left political parties demand fundamental changes in society. Chile's largest union coalition called a strike for Wednesday and Thursday to join forces with the high school and university students boycotting classes for three months now.
Masked protesters stop a bus from crossing a barricade during a national strike in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday Aug. 24, 2011. A nationwide strike shutting down Chile for two days has begun with people stoning buses and police clearing nearly two-dozen burning barricades around the capital of Santiago. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)




























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