President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the protests this morning by members of the National Coordinator of Education Activists (CNTE) at the National Palace are due to a “lack of information”, but added that what they requested has already been done. Has been taken care of.
Before starting the “morning” this Tuesday, members of the CNTE removed part of the fence protecting the National Palace, in order to try to enter and deliver the petition, with the president explaining that “they have already What they are demanding is already being met.”
The head of the federal executive said that teachers “have a (viewpoint) which, because of a lack of information, they think that Indigenous teachers are going to the National Institute for Indigenous Education and that’s not true, It will remain in the Ministry of Public Education”.
He stressed that the Directorate of Indigenous Education, which has long been in charge of the entire teaching-learning process in Indigenous communities, will continue to be the same, “but they are managing that it will no longer be the case. It’s just a matter of information.” It is,” he insisted.
After indicating that Public Education Secretary Leticia Ramirez looks after teachers, she also confirmed that educational reform included all teachers fired over the past six years. He was paid his salary which he wrongfully did not get as retribution for not accepting the so-called educational reform.
He added that when the previous government approved the “so-called educational reform”, the only ones who did the mobilizations were from the CNTE, and “they were the ones who got the clubs and the ones who went to jail. So, we have to respect and take care of them a lot”. In the service, all G. Of course, I also understand, they may not be pro-government, even if they have sympathies, the majority, especially the base, sympathize with our movement, but there is no way that their movement is over Be done. No, they have to be maintained and they will never be suppressed. Never, never, repression, that’s over, because if corrupt, despotic people come back, what’s his name? Claudio X Gonzalez “.
López Obrador reiterated that all teachers in the country would earn at least 16,000 pesos a month, similar to the average of social security workers, for which 42,000 million pesos would be invested.