| Mexican teachers occupy Oaxaca city |
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| World Affairs Talk | |
| Wednesday, 20 June 2007 | |
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Teachers are generally responsible to create future citizens and leaders but needs to step up and protest the injustice as well, and that’s exactly what, these teachers have done. The protesters set up squatter camps downtown and vowed to remain until their demands are met. Led by the National Education Workers Coordinating Committee, the teachers carried posters condemning the reforms to the Social Security Institute for State Employees Act (ISSSTE), approved in late March. State governor Ulises Ruiz told in a press conference that his administration would spare no effort in seeking a dialogue with the protesters before considering the use of force. Mexico's Interior Ministry now needs to step up for negotiations. The action was reminiscent of last year's five-month-long takeover of the city that ended in October when federal police dislodged protesters in one of Mexico's worst chapters of political unrest in recent years. The government was forced to meet their demand, but only partially. Neither the protesters' numbers nor their tactics compared to the events of 2006, when demonstrators hijacked and burned buses to create roadblocks and chased police out of the city. Share & Bookmark             |
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