These brief and limited demonstrations protested against the decline in benefits to school education, such as subsidised transportation fees.
[1] The year 2001 marks a milestone in the history of student movements, as a strike of high school students was called and adhered to on April 9, which achieved 80% adherence in the schools of the Santiago commune.
During the day, marches were recorded in Santiago and clashes with Carabineros de Chile.
[2] The influence and leadership of the recently founded Secondary Students Coordinating Assembly (ACES), formed the previous year after a division of the Federation of Secondary Students of Santiago (FESES), under the control of the Communist Youth of Chile, was visible.
According to the sociologist Juan Ignacio Venegas, these mobilisations should be considered a milestone in the way of conceiving the student organization and the approach to political participation of young Chileans.