AFP: Fresh clashes broke out Thursday in the Chilean capital a day after student leaders broke off talks with the government over education reforms in the latest development in a five-month protest movement.
At least 30 people were hurt, including 25 police officers, as security forces used tear gas and water cannons to break up an unauthorized demonstration of several thousand students.
Santiago municipal official Cecilia Perez said 132 people were arrested, many of them minors, for “public disorder, destruction of property and assault on police.”


The clashes occurred in several parts of the city around makeshift barricades set up by demonstrators that included flaming tires.
City officials had authorized a march, the 37th since the start of the movement, but it was for a route on the western end of the capital, and protesters decided to take a different route.
At the central Plaza Italia, police tried to break up a crowd marching toward Avenida Alameda. As police fired tear gas and opened up water cannons, the students scattered, AFP journalists said.
Each side blamed the other for the latest incidents.
“The government is to blame, because it opposes everything,” said Camila Vallejo of the Confech student federation. “We wanted permission to demonstrate (in downtown), they refuse. We ask for free education, they refuse that, too.”