Well, road chaos is served (again)
It seems that the National Coordinator of Education Workers, or CNTE for the folks, decided that what this country needs is not peace and love, but a good 48-hour national strike. The days chosen for this display of… magisterial force? They were on November 13 and 14. Get ready, because according to the statement, this will not be a discreet event: there will be simultaneous mobilizations, street closures and the seizure of main squares in at least 30 entities. Basically, a macro-event of organized chaos that promises to turn the logistics of half of Mexico upside down. Because nothing says “we want to talk” like paralyzing the country, right?
The dissident teaching profession, which always has a list of requests longer than the queue for a Bad Bunny concert, put its main demands on the table. In the crosshairs is the repeal of the ISSSTE Law of 2017 and the total elimination of the educational reforms. And here’s the good thing: they don’t make partisan distinctions. They throw equally at those promoted by Enrique Peña Nieto and those by Andrés Manuel López Obrador. To them, bad government is bad government, regardless of the color of the logo. They are also loudly demanding (and with blockades) that the national working group with the federal government be reinstated and that the state resolution boards, which have been on pause longer than the careers of some influencers, be reactivated.
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In a video broadcast on social networks—because even the protest is modernized—, the CNTE detailed the schedule. The actions will begin at 8 in the morning, because even to protest you have to get up early. Rallies will follow in the most important public squares. But the clear warning is that during these two days of active strike, they will take over avenues, streets, booths and any nerve center that could generate enough chaos for the headlines to focus on them. It’s the classic strategy of “if they don’t see me, they hear me… better, if they don’t see me, I’ll knock them down.”
In Mexico City, the epicenter of the political-social performance will be in front of the Congress of the Union and in the Zócalo, where they plan to install sit-ins and political events. And in case anyone was thinking of escaping from the metropolis, they threatened to take the exit booths towards Morelos and Puebla. In other words, your trip to Cuernavaca to disconnect from the stress of the city could become the first phase of the protest. Ironic.
The leadership of the teachers union was clear: this strike is just the appetizer, the preamble of what could come if the federal government continues to turn a deaf ear. Among their underlying demands is a comprehensive review of the pension system and the replacement of labor rights that, according to them, have been eroded. In short, more days of road chaos, sit-ins and a pitched battle on the networks between those who support them and those who just want to get to the office on time are coming.
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