MEXICO’S MOMENTOUS JUDICIAL ELECTION
Kurt Hackbarth, host of Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast, joins US news program Breakthrough News with Eugene Puryear & Rania Khalek to discuss Mexico’s historic judicial elections. In the landmark elections where judges were chosen by popular vote, Hackbarth says the Morena-led reforms are a crucial step to overhauling a judiciary long plagued by corruption and nepotism.
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CNTE Announces 72 Hour National Strike & March to Mexico City’s Zócalo
The class-conscious teachers union will also make “courtesy visits” to the embassies of countries who committed atrocities against Iran, to show their rejection of US imperialism.
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Normalista Students Block Morelia Avenues While CNTE Teachers Occupy Education Secretariat
Trained teachers were protesting the lack of placements, while the CNTE union demanded the state government meet its hiring and salary obligations.
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Education Dissident Marx Arriaga “remains the voice of the state, let’s not be fooled”: Specialists & Teachers
Critics point to the alternative teaching and learning model of the CNTE, which aims to bring students and the community closer together.
