• « It’s all on fire » : Looking back at Chile’s protest movement 3 years later

    Chile’s recent student-led revolution is a beacon of hope in a continent shaken by political and economic turmoil. And Icaro Darío Núñez Ruiz has been a leading voice for that movement from the very start, since he was just 16 years old. A student and activist from Valparaiso who is now studying politics and governance at Sciences Po, Núñez provides first-hand insight from the protest’s frontlines. “It was my birthday. I was having tacos with my friends. And seeing everything getting burned,” Núñez recalled, thinking back on how the demonstrations began in 2019. “We said, ‘Okay we’ll eat – and…