The Mexico City police formed a human fence in front of the National Palace doors in an attempt to prevent protesting teachers from entering the federal executive’s headquarters
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) announced on Monday, June 20, vacant positions to be assigned in its headquarters in Mexico City, with salaries that pay up to 140,000 pesos a month. The SEP has opened up positions for general director of agricultural technological education and marine sciences, and general director of higher secondary education in agricultural technology and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF All Mexican public teachers who making less than 20,000 pesos will receive on average a 7.5 percent pay hike, Public Education Secretary Delfina Gómez announced Sunday, May 15, the country’s official Teacher’s Day. The new salary increases will be staggered in three segments of 3 percent, 2 percent and 1 percent, Gómez explained during
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — A few days into the recently initiated school year in Mexico, teachers ascribed to Section 18 of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) union in the central western state of Michoacan are alleging serious irregularities and debts in their members’ salary payments over the last month. According to the union group, the administration
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 30, more than 25 million Mexican students and 2 million teachers finally returned to in-person classes after more than 17 months away from educational centers due to the effects of the covid-19 pandemic — though not without widespread uncertainty and controversy around the move. First, the National Union of Parents (UNFP) noted a distinct
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By KELIN DILLON On Saturday, Aug. 28, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) SUV was held at a standstill by protesting members of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CTNE) teachers’ union for the second day in a row while on tour in Chiapas, with the group demanding for him to listen to their demands and reopen negotiations. López
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … There’s fear in the air with the advent of the 51st anniversary march of what is known as the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The birthing pangs of Mexico’s new National Guard (GN) are being heard loud and clear across the country. But they do not come from within the newly created police deployed on the streets as of Sunday, June 30. The are from the nation’s Federal Police agents, who fear the changes that the GN represent. With the National
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By RICARDO CASTILLO After a long and weary debate on the night of Wednesday, April 24, that extended into the wee hours of Thursday, April 25, Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies voted to abolish the Education Reform “imposed” by former President Enrique Peña Nieto in 2013. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) celebrated the backing he received from this house of Congress
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With the railroad blockade by dissident members of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) teachers’ union in the central western state of Michoacán now in its fourth week — and no viable resolution in sight — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has apparently passed the buck on to the National Human
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