SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Thousands of students marched through the Chilean capital on Thursday for the first time since President Michelle Bachelet took power, ratcheting up the pressure on her to fulfil her campaign pledges to overhaul education in the country.
The previous administration of conservative Sebastian Pinera was blighted by dozens of angry and sometimes violent protests by students demanding that changes be made to the privatised education system established under ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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