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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Mexico: Guerrero Dissenting Teachers Warn that Arrests Will Worsen Conflict

Milenio: The leader of the State Coordinating Committee of Education Workers of Guerrero, Minervino Morán, said if the state government chooses the route of the arrests, it will worsen the conflict, and he warned that they will continue protests against the approval of the State Education Law.

In an interview with Azucena Uresti for Milenio Radio, Minervino Morán justified the violent actions that occurred yesterday in Chilpancingo because
"we feel attacked by the imposition of a reform in which our proposals were not taken into account, we feel it as mockery. The protests will continue, we will continue to demand an immediate solution to the conflict in the state of Guerrero," he said.
Yesterday, the governor of Guerrero, Ángel Aguirre Rivero, said in a statement that Minervino Morán and Gonzalo Juárez were identified as the suspected intellectual authors of the violence in the state offices of political parties, and arrest warrants have been issued against them.

Faced with this decision, Minervino Morán said this does not facilitate settling the conflict, and he is exploring seeking an amparo (order of protection).
"If the governor is going to go down the path of repression and detention, this does not facilitate the solution of the conflict here in the state of Guerrero," he said.
He warned that if the government of Ángel Aguirre Rivero is choosing the path of the arrests, the conflict will worsen.
"The struggle we are undertaking is just; it would be better not to have to seek an amparo, but we are reviewing it," he said.
He said the damage done yesterday is an "extreme expression of a demonstration" when it is not listened to, when their views and proposals are not taken into account.
"These are the ways in which social movements are forced to go. Instead of a solution, there is a hardening of these measures and, for that reason, this is a form of expression of protest that we have not always taken," he said.
He denied that people had infiltrated yesterday's protest and assured that everyone was a teacher. Spanish original