Faced with 'Repression', Mexico's CNTE Dissident Teachers Issue 'High Alert' Laura Poy Solano - La Jornada
go to original April 6, 2013

Hundreds of federal police cleared protesting teachers from the main highway between Mexico City and Acapulco after the demonstrators blocked the roadway for hours, causing a huge traffic backup. (AP)

The National Coordinating Committee of Education Workers (CNTE) declared a "High Alert" after the eviction of Section 14 teachers from Guerrero, who for a second day had blocked the Highway of the Sun [Cuernavaca-Acapulco] in the absence of agreements with Governor Ángel Aguirre for an alternative plan to the state education law [see, Guerrero Congress Rejects Governor's Education Reform, Teachers Continue Protests].

Teachers' leaders said that today they will convene an emergency meeting of the CNTE's extended national political leadership to define a position. Meanwhile, in states such as Oaxaca, direct actions were taken by blocking highways, and in Michoacán a state emergency assembly was called to determine whether they would initiate an indefinite work stoppage.

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