This text by Laura Poy Solano initially appeared within the March 19, 2026 version of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing day by day newspaper.
Mexico Metropolis. Members of the management of the Nationwide Coordinator of Schooling Staff (CNTE) rejected having “extra delaying techniques with federal officers who lack the capability to resolve points,” and reiterated their demand to reinstate dialogue, however with President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
At a press convention close to the Torre del Caballito, the place they started a blockade that may lengthen alongside Paseo de la Reforma to the Diana the Huntress roundabout, as a part of their 72-hour Nationwide Strike, trainer Jenny Aracely Pérez, normal secretary of part 22 of Oaxaca, emphasised that within the present administration “we now have met thrice with President Sheinbaum Pardo, and we now have reiterated that there’s a funds to repeal the 2007 ISSSTE Legislation,” the central demand of the dissident academics.
She identified that in President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration, “we met a number of instances, and we had been at all times advised that it couldn’t be repealed as a result of they didn’t have a majority in Congress. Now they inform us it’s as a result of there aren’t any assets, which we now have insisted is fake. What we suggest is to generate a course of to attain dignified pensions for all employees, not simply academics.”
We have now defined, he said, that “there is no such thing as a proposal for 80 p.c of schooling employees who are usually not within the transitional article X of the ISSSTE Legislation, so they’re already in particular person accounts, which won’t enable them to entry a dignified retirement.”
Pedro Hernández, normal secretary of Part 9 in Mexico Metropolis, emphasised that given the federal government’s “closed-mindedness, which prefers to guard the pursuits of the ten non-public pension fund directors (AFORES) that handle 8.2 trillion pesos belonging to employees, we reiterate that we are going to return with larger power. We’ll return to the states to seek the advice of and reorganize, and we might be again. The choice of whether or not this can happen through the World Cup might be a choice for the federal authorities itself.”
Professor Filiberto Frausto, normal secretary of part 34 in Zacatecas, indicated that the federal authorities “has solely given inadequate and demagogic responses, providing delaying techniques that don’t present a definitive answer for the employees.”
The management of the CNTE reiterated its rejection of creating a dialogue by which solely the Secretaries of the Inside, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, and of Public Schooling, Mario Delgado, take part, contemplating that “they don’t have any capability to resolve our most important calls for,” which embrace the repeal of the 2007 ISSSTE Legislation, in addition to the so-called USICAMM Legislation, and a 100% wage improve.
The dissident academics reported that their motion for this Thursday might be to keep up a blockade on Paseo de la Reforma and surrounding streets till 6:00 p.m., after which reinstate their Nationwide Consultant Meeting at 8:00 p.m.
The dissident academics arrived earlier than 9:30 a.m. this Thursday within the neighborhood of El Caballito, to dam each instructions of Paseo de la Reforma on the nook of Avenida Juárez and Bucareli, which resulted within the suspension of vehicular site visitors on Avenida Guerrero, so there is no such thing as a circulation from the Atemajac roundabout to previous the Hidalgo metro station.
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“The duty at hand for employees could be none aside from to advertise group and combative wrestle in protection of our class pursuits,” writes Ricardo Torres.
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President Sheinbaum’s day by day press convention, with feedback on assist for Mexicans overseas, USMCA negotiations, and poor administration of the oil business beneath previous neoliberal administrations.
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The Mexican Community of Individuals Affected by Mining believes the federal government is expediting environmental permits with out contemplating the cumulative impacts in areas that already face overexploitation of aquifers & environmental degradation.
