María Jesús Sanhueza is a Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an student leader

Student Leader

A student leader is typically a college student who serves in a leadership position on their campus. The term student leader can also refer to high school students.-Examples:A student leader could be any of the following:* Resident Assistant...

, communist youth activist and a former leading organizer and spokesperson of the Asamblea Coordinadora de Estudiantes Secundarios (Coordinating Assembly of High School Students a.k.a. ACES) which conducted demonstrations

Demonstration (people)

A demonstration or street protest is action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause; it normally consists of walking in a mass march formation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint, or rally, to hear speakers.Actions such as...

, marches and school occupations that occurred throughout Chile between April and June 2006. The highly coordinated mobilization of children between the ages of 11 – 17 was subsequently joined by University students and had massive nation-wide support. The Socialist Party of Chile

Socialist Party of Chile

The Socialist Party of Chile is a political party, that is part of the center-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy coalition. Its historical leader was the late President of Chile Salvador Allende Gossens, who was deposed by General Pinochet in 1973...

 officially condemned the actions of the students and the Communist Party of Chile

Communist Party of Chile

The Communist Party of Chile is a Chilean political party inspired by the thoughts of Karl Marx and Lenin. It was founded in 1922, as the continuation of the Socialist Workers Party, and in 1934 it established its youth wing, the Communist Youth of Chile .In the last legislative elections in Chile...

's weekly newspaper El Siglo censured Sanhueza. It is estimated that up to 700,000 students took part in the mobilization that exposed the endemic inequalities and failings of the Chilean educational system based largely on the Ley orgánica Constitucional de Enseñanza (Organic Constitutional Law on Teaching) established by Pinochet in 1990.

See also

• 2006 student protests in Chile
  2006 student protests in Chile
  The 2006 student protests in Chile were a series of ongoing student voice protests carried out by high school students across Chile from late April to early June 2006...
  
  
• Chilean transition to democracy
  Chilean transition to democracy
  The Chilean transition to democracy began when a Constitution establishing a transition itinerary was approved in a plebiscite. From March 11, 1981 to March 11, 1990, several organic constitutional laws were approved leading to the final restoration of democracy...
  
  
• Education in Chile
  Education in Chile
  Education in Chile is divided in preschool, primary school, secondary school, and technical or higher education .- Levels of education :The levels of education in Chile are:...