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| Subject: At least 6 dead in Mexico as education protesters clash with police Mon Jun 20, 2016 7:18 pm | |
| The long-simmering dispute between Mexico’s federal government and a radical arm of the country’s teachers union erupted into violence over the weekend, as riot police clashed with protesters in the southern state of Oaxaca, leaving at least six dead and more than 100 others wounded.
Teachers canceled classes in Oaxaca on Monday after the violence, where protesters threw rocks and molotov cocktails and set vehicles ablaze. Witnesses reported that police fired into the crowds.
The violence marked the bloodiest moment in a conflict that has intensified during the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto. As part of Peña Nieto’s reform agenda, authorities overhauled the public education system, requiring mandatory testing for all teachers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/at-least-six-dead-as-education-protesters-clash-with-police/2016/06/20/41e6e8fc-3705-11e6-af02-1df55f0c77ff_story.html |
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