About 300 students from the Paraguayan National University and the private Catholic University marched to the national police headquarters in Asuncion on October 25 to protest the new Law of Higher Education (LES).
The law passed through the lower house of the Paraguayan Congress three weeks earlier, and is currently before the Upper House.
During the protest, Romilio Gonzalez and Johana Orihuela, members of the Popular University Movement, spoke to 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
鈥淭his is one of a number of actions we are carrying out,鈥 Orihuela said.
Asuncion
In a show of force, about 10,000 supporters of the Frente Guasu attended a rally addressed by the party鈥檚 leader, ex-president of Paraguay Fernando Lugo, in the regional city of Coronel Ovideo on October 25.
Lugo was deposed in June in a parliamentary coup. Lugo's removal was organised by right-wing forces opposed to progressive changes that threatening to challenge the interests of the traditional oligarchy and US imperialism.