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Striking Oaxaca Teachers Protest Police Raid

HeadlineJun 16, 2006

In Mexico, thousands of striking teachers converged in the center of the city of Oaxaca Thursday. The teachers are in the third week of a strike demanding higher wages and more funding for Mexico’s education system. The gathering came just one day after a police raid that teachers say killed two of their members and a third child. In response, the teachers said they would now call for the resignation of state governor Ulises Ruiz.

  • Striking teacher Hermenegildo Sanchez: “We don’t trust (the government) now. With all the people’s support and the organizations, we’re here taking over the Zocalo again and we’ll stay here until [the governor] responds to our demands and punishes the guilty— the police officers, all of them.”
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