Well it was a tense day in Oaxaca City yesterday, as APPO did their best to intimidate the SNTE into voting down the proposal backed by Enrique Rueda Pacheco, the leader of Section 22 of the SNTE, to end the strike and reopen the schools.
First; the assembly did not start on time at 11:00 a.m. as originally planned. On another thread yesterday I posted
a translation of an El Universal article (post #17) containing the details of APPO's intimidation of the teachers, which left in doubt the possibility that the proposal to return to classes announced by Rueda Pacheco would be approved. The assembly finally did get underway after 5:00 p.m., but the
reports surfacing out of it made it look unlikely that any proposal other than one which was predicated upon the removal of Ulises Ruiz as Governor would be accepted. But evidently Rueda Pacheco and his supporters prevailed, as indicated by the above-stated result.
Hopefully; we will begin to see the dismantling of the protest machinery and a freeing of Oaxaca City this week. This protest has gone on far too long.
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