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CL - Camila Vallejo, president of the Student Federation of the University of Chile (CONFECH) states that the students' demands did not emerge spontaneously, but obey to "a long process based on a thorough analysis of what happens in Chile, of injustice "and said that now" you have to look ahead and build an alternative for the country. " She also expressed her desire to "project the movement politically, because for the first time, a sectarian demand became a social movement that includes many sectors." After about six months of protests, the student movement, which demands free public education, continues to set the political agenda of the country. Tuesday starts a new 48-hour strike. Students, teachers, environmentalists and the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (United Workers Central), a leading Chilean union, supported the protest, which will have its main event in the demonstrations called for Wednesday afternoon. On the eve of these days of mobilization, BBC Mundo spoke in Paris with Camila Vallejo, one of the visible faces of the movement. Vallejo, 22 and a student of Geography, is in Europe with three other Chilean student representatives on Friday to express their demands and trying to "internationalize" the movement. They traveled to Europe to meet with international institutions and intellectuals. - What advice you have given them the intellectuals, which one you like best? The philosopher Edgar Morin gave us confidence. He said that higher education cannot be bequeathed to the market, but a

Public Education must be guaranteed because countries need to develop. Stphane Hessel (the author of "Indignaos!") led us to strengthen communications and installation of our ideas in the world, to spread our proposals by all means. - Speaking of Stphane Hessel, do you think the Chilean student movement in some way connects with the social movements such as Indignados and Occupy Wall Street? The Chilean student movement is not part of the Indignados (outraged). It is not a spontaneous movement, but a long process based on a thorough analysis of the injustice that is happening in Chile. We understand the struggle of Indignados, but in Chile we are past the stage of discontent. Now, you have to look ahead and build an alternative for the country. - Taking into account existing student protests in other countries, how do you think you can internationalize the movement? The different movements - in Chile, Colombia, Brazil, France, Spain - do not arise by copying, each has their own particularities but are perceived as a whole. It is the struggle of those who have awakened to build a different model of society nationally and internationally. There is a consistency, which is a resistance to a privatization model or a step towards the conquest of this right. In France, we met with the UNEF (National Union of Students of France). They showed us how they are raising awareness to resist the covert privatization process generated by the government. We are in different processes, but have the same goals, and there are bonds of international solidarity among the youth. - - What educational model do you envision for Chile?

No student wanted to copy anything. Chile believes in its own model, which allows the integration of all and is free. We want an education that can transform society and generate the professionals to build democracy. - How do you see the future of the student movement? The student movement is at a determinant crossroad, after five months of mobilization. We have to think of how to move tactically to keep it going. Today, the dialogue with the government is broken. They will reform the scholarships system but we are excluded from the discussion, which is being channeled to the Parliament. So, even if we dont trust in Parliament, we will have to work with them. We do not want the national budget to be legislated until they have bills that are in agreement with the students in educational matters. - Dont you think that the prominence of your role is detrimental to the student movement as a whole? - The personification of the movement is due to politicians and the media. It is a strategy that is used very frequently with those who rise to social demands. In Chile applies a lot, and I think in other countries too. In Cuba they say Castrism, Chavism in Venezuela. Everything is personified with the supposed leaders, and is not seen as a process that is shared by many. In the end, by destroying the individual they try to destroy the movement. This is how we have been as vulnerable. I've been accused of being manipulated by the Communist Party, of profiting from the interviews that I give. I've been told I'm profiting from all this. - You are about to graduate. Do you plan to continue the movement nevertheless?

 - For student issues, I will continue to participate, depending on the upcoming FECh elections. We will be building, with all my peers who are not the visible face. And we want to project the movement politically, because for the first time, a sectarian demand became a social movement that includes many sectors. - Thinking about a career in politics? - I am militant; I'm willing to put myself at the disposal of the needs of this or other movements. In the field of the upcoming elections, I dont think its something particularly mine, but all young people need to join the electoral register as candidates for alderman. Go to regain for municipalities from the Right or whoever do not agree with responding to our proposals that are fair. Now young people are interested in politics, and have to assume this responsibility. We must take charge and lead a participatory project built. And so we must have a vocation for power, but in the good sense of the word.