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Mexico & Nafta - June 2016 (ISSN 1741-444X)

Bringing the CNTE into line

After almost three years, Mexico’s federal government appears to have finally lost patience with the unruly Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajaores de la Educación (CNTE) teachers’ union. Following the call by the CNTE for an indefinite national teachers’ strike against the implementation of the 2012-2013 education reform, the head of the federal education ministry (SEP), Aurelio Nuño Mayer, announced in mid-May the dismissal of thousands of striking teachers for failing to show up for work. The decision looks like a major turning point in the long-running conflict as well as for the education reform itself.

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