Paramilitaries Target Mexico Teachers with Police Permission
Paramilitaries Target Mexico Teachers with Police Permission
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Teachers pull barricades used by policemen during a protest against President Enrique Pena Nieto's education reform,
in Monterrey, Mexico July 13, 2016
Published 20 July 2016
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A group of masked men along with police evicted a camp set up by protesting teachers in Mexico’s state of Chiapas.
Mexican State and municipal police accompanied by paramilitaries and hooded individuals with guns forcefully evacuated the only camp that civil society and teachers of the National Coordinator of Education Workers, CNTE, held in the state of Chiapas, Wednesday.
In a statement the CNTE said that 10 trucks loaded with a group of masked men came to the camp at highway San Cristóbal-Tuxtla Gutiérrez in Chiapas where about a hundred protesters were gathering before dispersing them with force. The CNTE was on high alert and reinstated its blockade soon after, according to student activist Omar Garcia.
There were reports that between one and two teachers were killed in the clashes and that two were detained. Videos circulating on social media website showed the masked men took part in cracking down on the protesting teachers, apparently with police permission. The news comes about a month after the Nochixtlan massacre claimed 12 lives in the state of Oaxaca.
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