Striking Teachers Resume Protests After Clashes Kill Eight in Oaxaca Euronews
go to original June 21, 2016

Update: Mexican Interior Minister Agrees to Meet with Striking Teachers (teleSUR)

Defiant teachers returned to the streets in Oaxaca to protest against education reforms in Mexico, one day after violence with police killed eight and injured more than 50 people.

Carrying a makeshift coffin the teachers brandished placards denouncing government repression.

Teachers and their supporters want police to leave the streets, arguing that they are protesting peacefully.

“We don’t want anymore massacres. We don’t want repression. The police need to go back to their stations because Oaxaca is not at war. We’re protesting peacefully, expressing what we think is not good. This is why we demand negotiations where we can have a debate,” said Juan Garcia of the CNTE teachers union.

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