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“There was another reason law school did not sit well with her.”
“It was the high schoolers, more than the university students, who staged the boldest occupations.”
“And because it was a public university, she’d get to attend for free.”
“It was an amazing education into how power moves in this country, how economic and political power are completely intertwined,” Sofía said.”
“At the end of the semester, he took the students with the highest grades on a field trip to the Constitutional Court.”
“__________________________________ From Sex and Dissent by Meaghan Beatley, published by Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.”
“And as it turned out, the penguin revolution was just the beginning of nearly a decade of sustained student protests.”
“She wanted to understand how power worked at its highest echelons—in politics and business—so that she could fight it.”
“The occupied schools became their own little Marxist utopias.”
“Failing a university course after missing too many classes felt more consequential.”
“By 2011, when Sofía was finishing high school, the student movement had matured into a well-oiled political machine.”
“He and his MIR comrades regaled her with stories of their exploits, and of Chile in the years before the coup.”
“She applied to the University of Chile because it had the best law school in the country, and she had the grades to get in.”
“This was the first class Sofía took with him.”
“Sofía coped by telling herself she’d be like a spy on a recon mission.”
“In time, that led her to experiment with poetry.”