This paper is part of the MA dissertation Isubmitted to Lancaster University and hasbeen modified to conform to space constrains.This article examines how the Chilean studentmovement was linguistically constructed in leftistand rightist newspapers (El Siglo and El Mercurio,respectively) during one of the most violent andrepressive demonstrations in August, 2011. Icarry out a critical analysis of the coverage of thisdemonstration using Ruth Wodak and MartinResisgl’s Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA)for the analysis of the written texts. I draw ondifferent approaches to the understanding of socialmovements from different social sciences such associology, media studies and linguistics to fulfil theobjectives of my research. While this dissertationprovides further evidence of the ideological bias inmedia coverage of social protests, it also evidencesthe unequal power relations when it comes to accessand deliver information in Chile. Furthermore, thelinguistic approach to this social issue offers detailedexamples of the linguistic choices commonly usedto bluntly delegitimize social movements so as tofurther perpetuate unequal relations of power.