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PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006
14 Dec 2006
Source: Reuters

 
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006 A student is detained by police during a protest in Santiago, Chile, May 31, 2006. In the largest student movement in the past 30 years in Chile, hundreds of thousands of students from around the country are pressuring the government to cede to their list of demands whose main points are free passes to public transportation, free college entrance exams, more teachers and improved secondary school buildings.
REUTERS/VICTOR RUIZ CABALLERO


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A housing debtor runs after setting himself on fire to protest against Chile's housing system in front of the government palace in Santiago January 4, 2007. The man extinguished the flames by jumping into a pool outside the government palace and was arrested by police. CHILE OUT