15 Crucial Days

MEXICO - Report 03 Sep 2013 by Mauricio Gonzalez, Guillermo Valdes and Esteban Manteca

Executive Summary Over the past week dissident members of the National Teachers’ Union, gathered in what is known as the “Coordinadora” or CNTE, have grown increasingly audacious in their efforts to derail the last of the education reform bills pending before Congress. After having succeeded last month in pressuring Congress to postpone consideration of the proposed Law on Educational Civil Service, they have brought thousands more protestors from around the country into encampments in the center of Mexico City, held daily marches and sit-ins. The failure of Mexico City and federal authorit...

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