The city of Oaxaca experienced a day of protests and roadblocks today, primarily related to labor demands. The demonstrations caused traffic chaos as the main streets of the state capital were closed.
One of the roadblocks was carried out by parents from the Cendi number 1 union, who demanded road safety for their students in light of the renovation and expansion of the “Eduardo Vasconcelos” baseball stadium, home of businessman Alfredo Harp Helú’s Guerreros de Oaxaca team.
Meanwhile, retirees and pensioners from Section 22 of the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) also held a roadblock and seized BinniBus buses to demand annual bonus payments for more than 600 workers.
Workers from the Higher College for Comprehensive Intercultural Education of Oaxaca (CSEIIO) also blocked the city’s main thoroughfares to demand that the state government fulfill its salary increase commitment and the dismissal of the school’s Director General.
Meanwhile, residents of Villa de Zaachila took over the federal government’s Welfare Secretariat to demand the allocation of financial resources from the Fund for Indigenous Communities.
And the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca (UABJO) was once again the scene of a shooting at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, which forced the suspension of school activities.
Protests also took place outside the state capital. In Salina Cruz, a municipality in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region, dozens of taxi drivers blocked the town’s main streets with their vehicles to denounce the insecurity in the municipality, the circulation of “pirated” taxis, and violence against women and femicides.
Source: es-us.noticias.yahoo
