María Jesús Sanhueza

María Jesús Sanhueza (born 1990) is a Chilean student leader, 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, 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 officially condemned the actions of the students and the Communist Party of 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.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• 2006 student protests in Chile
• Chilean transition to democracy
• Education in Chile

References

• Chile: The Rise of the Penguin Revolution by Justin Vogler 21 June 2006 (English)
• Student upheavals expose anti-working class agenda of Chile’s Bachelet From WSWS by Eduardo Ballesteros 20 July 2006 (English)
• NYC Student Union Student in Chile Mobilize to Win Education Reform by Nathalie Hrizi September 1, 2006
• Chile: "seguiremos luchando" Redacción BBC Mundo 5 June 2006 (Spanish)
• Enseignants, étudiants et travailleurs hospitaliers en lutte(French)
• Der Aufstand der Pinguine by Cosima Schmitt (German)

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Name	Sanhueza, Maria Jesus
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Date of birth	1990
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