Oaxaca Teachers Agree to Continue Protest Until Gov. Ulises Ruiz Falls

The teachers’ assembly, meeting in the hotel owned by the union, resolved that the departure of Ulises Ruiz “is not negotiable and cannot be conceded; it remains our sole demand.” As the 1,500 union delegates roared, “unity, unity!” Rueda Pacheco reaffirmed that his organization continues, “forward, together with the other organizations with which we form the Popular Assemblies of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO in its Spanish initials); we are not separate, we are a single front that will maintain this period of struggle.” This was followed by the chorus of teachers who filled the auditorium: “The teachers and the people united / Will never be defeated.”

In response to the nearly clandestine naming of new academic authorities at the Oaxaca State Institute of Public Education by its director, Emilio Mendoza Kaplan, Rueda Pecheco called the appointments “bogus.” The only academic authorities that the union recognizes “are those that have been appointed by this movement.”

Section 22 reiterated that it will stop the march/trek to Mexico City “in the moment that we are informed of the departure of Mr. Ulises Ruis.” If that does not occur, “the march will arrive as scheduled on October 3.” At the same time, he demanded “an end to the repression of all social leaders and fighters, and the immediate punishment of the intellectual and material authors of the assassination of our comrades during this period of struggle.” The union repeated its demand for the “immediate and unconditional” release of all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in the country, especially Germán Mendoza Nube, Erangelio Mendoza González, Catarino Torres Pereda and Ramiro Aragón Pérez.

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