Uprising

So the funny giraffe students in the earlier post have become more serious. Public school students throughout Chile are demanding more just education (it's complicated), and things have escalated tonight. While we ate another lunch devoid of any vegetable matter, at a place that felt like a diner, I saw on the TV protesters in the street, tear gas clouding the air, and water cannons blasting the students to disperse their unauthorized gathering. I noticed that this was happening not far from where we were, and saw some reports from the intersection of Yañez and Providencia, where the apartment is for which we are supposed to sign a lease on Monday. When we returned to our sort-of suburban enclave of Ñuñoa, people were in the streets, or at least out in front of their apartments and houses, banging pots and pans with wooden spoons, showing solidarity with the students. The president's 25% approval rating may be starting to show in more tangible ways.