on April 10th, 2018 (@Pozol) Under the slogan “48-Hour Teachers and Popular Strike Towards National Teacher and Popular Strike”, on April 10th, thousands of teachers of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE in its Spanish acronym), parents of families, displaced indigenous peoples, student teachers and members of more than 60 campesino social organizations, marched in Tuxtla Gutiérrez against educational reform and declared themselves in favor of creating a “national united front” to face “the onslaught of the federal government with its public policies and legal reforms that criminalize social protest, which unemployment with massive layoffs, suspended payments to teachers, which continues to reduce spending on health and education while increasing it for electoral campaigns.” The mobilization was led by 59 families of displaced indigenous people from Puebla ejido in Chenalho who stated that the government still has not meet their demands to return to their homes.
For more information in Spanish: en Chiapas contra la reforma educativa y proponen un frente nacional (Proceso, 9 de abril de 2018) Desplazados se suman a marchas (Aquí Noticias, 9 de abril de 2018) CNTE en Chiapas levanta paro y anuncia otro de tres días en protesta contra la reforma educativa (Proceso, 10 de abril de 2018) Maestros levantan plantón, pero amenazan con regresar (NVI Noticias, 11 de abril de 2018) For more information from SIPAZ: Nacional: La CNTE y la Segob acuerdan mesas de negociación (13 de julio de 2016) Chiapas/Oaxaca/Nacional: Ante falta de acuerdos sobre la reforma educativa en el diálogo, el magisterio sigue con las movilizaciones (28 de junio de 2016)