Dissident CNTE Union Teachers Continue Strikes as School Year Starts Anthony Harrup - The Wall Street Journal
go to original August 22, 2016

Demonstrators belonging to a dissident teachers union march during a protest in Mexico City earlier this month. (Marco Ugarte/Associated Press)

Update: Mexican President Halts Talks with Teachers Until They Return to Classrooms (Latin American Herald Tribune)

Dissident teachers in southern Mexican states stayed away from classrooms Monday at the start of the school year and planned more protests to press demands that the government repeal an overhaul of the public-education system.

Returning to schools across the country were around 25.7 million primary and secondary pupils, some 23 million of whom attend public schools taught by more than one million teachers.

Leaders of the CNTE, a dissident faction of the national teachers union, said its members are maintaining their months-old strike in the states of Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guerrero, Michoacán and parts of Mexico City.

The group, which is strongest in Oaxaca state, also planned further blockades and protest marches. The CNTE has around 80,000 members in Oaxaca and 150,000 nationwide.

For the past several months the CNTE and members of other protest groups have closed highways, blocked access to airports and shopping centers, and vandalized and looted stores, mostly in southern states.

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