Weekly Report - 13 December 2012 (WR-12-49)

President Enrique Peña Nieto moved decisively onto a collision course this week with arguably Mexico’s most powerful woman. Peña Nieto’s predecessors have quailed at the prospect of challenging the authority of Elba Esther Gordillo, who has kept a tight grip on the country’s education system for 22 years at the helm of the teachers’ union Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE). Peña Nieto, however, tabled an education reform proposal to congress which would undercut her power and haul the teaching profession into the 21^st century.

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