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The past Wednesday there was an education forum scheduled between Jose Antonio Kast (Accion Republicana) and Tomas Hirsch (Frente Amplio), but a group of students had other plans. This group were teenagers that clearly manifested their disagreement to Kast`s ideals and they let everyone on campus and on the internet know by screaming intolerant comments and not letting the debate happen, which was their hole point.  Following the demonstration carried out by various students, the "Movimiento Gremial" of the campus issued a statement announcing the suspension of the activity. "We have taken the decision to cancel the education forum scheduled for today that had as guests José Antonio Kast and Tomás Hirsch," they said. To this, they added that "the deputy Tomás Hirsch decided to subtract from the debate at the last minute. We tried to upload another opposition exhibitor, but for various reasons they did not want to join the debate against José Antonio Kast "...

As all of you already know, society now-a-days are addicted to their phones. Without knowing, we spend more than 5 hours daily looking at it. We don’t realize how much time we loose starring at our phones, this doesn’t mean that we are watching interesting things or learning new stuff. In fact, most of the time using our phones we are connected to social media apps like instagram, snapchat, twitter, and many more. I bet that most of you spend the whole day attached to your phones. Social apps make unsociable people, so let’s make a difference and put our phones away in order to disconnect to connect.

Genetic remains of three film students kidnapped last month in the western Jalisco state have revealed that they were later killed and their bodies dissolved in acid, official say. The male students, all in their 20s, were kidnapped on March 19 while they were filming a school project in the town of Tonala. Reports in local media say they were seized by a group of men disguised as police when their car broke down on a motorway. According to state prosecutor, Javier Salomon Aceves Gastelum, Daniel Diaz, and Marco Avalos were killed by members of the New Generation Jalisco Cartel – one of Mexico’s most powerful criminal gangs. Raul Sanchez said their bodies were doused with acid to leave them unrecognizable, but forensic investigators matched samples found from a farm with the DNA of at least two of them.

Chile is the country with highest increase of HIV infections, which have been increasing more than 10% yearly and not just in Chile but in Latin-america countries such as Puerto Rico and Guatemala. This epidemic is something that until now has been underestimated by the authorities. The sexual education is failing and it is very important that people start realising that being careful with sexual interactions is not boring but safe. More and more people has been encouraged to participate in campaigns for preventing spread of the disease, and also Chile has been making sure to give the antiretroviral therapy available for free. The number of Chileans undergoing treatment right now is 33.000. The need to improve early detection of HIV seems to be urgent. People need to be aware of the risks of having unprotected sex. Even more now when preservative pills are being used more and more, people may think that they are having safe sex, but those pills do not prevent infection. Society needs t...

The president of the United States, Donald Trump ordered to attack Siria. United States attacked along with France and the United Kingdom, it was a precise blow and its core was the production of chemical weapons. There were no dead soldiers and that there was no damage to the civilian population, so the president triumphed after the attack, "mission accomplished".

Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before congress this week thanks to the company’s latest series of controversies, this time driven by accusations that the firm Cambridge Analytica abused Facebook data  to help Donald Trump win the 2016 US presidential election. Not only that but also because it is accused that Facebook invades their users privacy, collecting all their data and using it to save information about the population, so then it can be used to help in in all kinds of researchs. Another controversy is that according to medical researchs, Facebook is  bad for your health.  Spending a lot of time alone, disengaged from other human beings, staring at your phone, and clicking on little buttons on a platform obsessively engineered by some of the smartest people on the planet to keep you staring and clicking is not good for you.  The latest Facebook scandal is creating a new wave of people performatively deleting their Facebook accounts, and that’s fine. But f...

Pope Francis has admitted he made “grave errors” in judgment in a clerical sexual abuse   scandal in Chile and invited the abuse victims he had discredited to Rome to beg their forgiveness. In an extraordinary letter published on Wednesday, Francis also summoned all of Chile’s bishops to the Vatican for an emergency summit in the coming weeks to discuss the scandal, which has badly tarnished his reputation and that of the Chilean church. The Vatican orders up such emergency visits only on rare occasions, when Vatican intervention is urgently required, such as when the clerical sexual abuse scandal exploded in the United States in 2002. Francis said the meeting, which comes just a year after the Chilean bishops were last in Rome on a regular visit, would have as its objective “repairing scandal where possible and re-establishing justice”.

Dear students, remember that the next period ends on Sunday so be sure to post a comment before midnight. You could write about the chemical weapons' attack in Siria, the letter the Pope wrote to us about the Karadima case, the illegal use of information posted on Facebook, etc .. If you have problems send me a mail missvalerie2018@gmail.com

For some years now, technology has evolved and social media has been a usual way of using this technology. But even before the technology we know and use nowadays, humans did communicate differently and in their own kind of "social media". First it was signals and noises, then languages, then written media, then telegraphs, then telephones, to the point that approximately 100 years ago computers didn't exist up to the 1940s  the first "super computer" was created. Later on computer networks were developed, which led to the birth of the internet. About 50 years ago mobile phones weren`t yet created. And here we are now using internet at least 5 times per day, not only as an entertainment resource but as a way to impact in politics, economy, commerce, education, business, etc. But the one I want to highlight is society. Society uses social media in many different ways, and there are positive results such as being updated in current news, being able to learn new th...