ABSTRACT
The country’s economic woes continued in the second decade of the millennium, and as the government increasingly moved to the right, oppositional student groups began forging alliances with labor groups to wield more power. In the first years of the new millennium, extremist students began to use violence against the government of President Enrique Bolanos. In the new millennium, student demonstrations became increasingly political and mirrored the divide widening in the country. Students in Prague, who ten years earlier would have gathered to discuss democracy in dimly lit, unheated coffee houses, were at the turn of the millennium grabbing Big Macs and fries and eyeing sports cars between classes, discussing postmodernism in hipster internet bars. South African student protest levels once again increased, as students organized through social media, and took on the increasing costs of education in protests that often ended in conflicts with police.
