MEXICO - Mexico teachers extend protests

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Tuesday, 22 August 2006,

03:11 GMT 04:11 UK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mexico

teachers extend protests

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Duncan Kennedy

BBC News, Mexico

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Protesters took

the streets on Monday

 

 

 

Striking

teachers seized 12 private radio stations in the southern Mexican city of

Oaxaca and set buses on fire, as a long-running protest worsened.

They acted after unidentified gunmen opened fire on a government

radio station already under their control.

The strikers used the stations to tell parents to ignore Monday's start of the

school year and keep children at home.

Teachers have been striking since May to demand higher wages and

Oaxaca Governor Ulises Ruiz's resignation.

Roads blocked

The shooting began at a government-owned radio station already

in the hands of the striking teachers.

 

 

 

 

Striking teachers

set buses on fire on Monday

 

 

 

A number of rounds were fired by unknown gunmen,

and the teachers say one of their members was injured.

The attack prompted a violent retaliation by the teachers, and a

number of buses were overturned and set on fire.

Dozens of the protestors also took over the privately-run radio

stations and started broadcasting messages of defiance.

Others armed with crude weapons blocked off some of the main

roads into Oaxaca.

A spokesman for President Vicente Fox blamed

the state government for attempting to take back the radio station by force.

He said the attack on the was carried out without consulting the

federal authorities and described it as a unilateral decision by the governor

of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5272462.stm

 

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