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Weekly Report - 23 June 2016 (WR-16-24)
MEXICO: Teacher protests result in fatal clashes
At least eight people were killed on 19 June after violent clashes between militant teachers and police officers in the south-eastern state of Oaxaca. The violence broke out after some 800 federal police (PF) and state police officers sought to dismantle roadblocks erected by protesters from Mexico’s second largest teachers’ union Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE). Both sides agreed to hold talks after the violence although it is not clear what this will accomplish other than reducing tension in the short-term: neither the education minister, Aurelio Nuño, nor the CNTE has shown any appetite for compromise.
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