La Jornada: Hector Briseño and Sergio Ocampo
Acapulco, Guerrero - Governor Ángel Aguirre Rivero ended dialogue with the dissident teachers and reported that he ordered the arrest of two leaders of the State Coordinating Committee of Education Workers in Guerrero (CETEG).
"Arrest warrants were released against Minervino Morán and Gonzalo Juárez, the intellectual authors of the acts of vandalism that occurred today," [the Governor] wrote on his Twitter account, after contingents of the movement vandalized political party offices and government buildings and caused fires.In an earlier interview with a television station with national coverage, Aguirre Rivero said that after the events,
"no other alternative remains but complete enforcement of the law and the preservation of the rule of law."He argued that it makes no sense to maintain the channels of communication, and he reproached the dissident teachers that
"they always meet with government agencies, make speeches and then do exactly the opposite."The Governor emphasized that 95 percent of schools in the state had normal activities. He said that the dissident teachers are a minority,
"although they don't like it when we say it".
He noted that Morán Hernández, Juárez Ocampo and others
"are committee members, they are not in front of a classroom, they are dedicated only to this, to promoting demonstrations like these".He added that
"a couple of months ago they gave Gonzalo Juárez 350,000 pesos [$28,597 USD]; a check exists, where he signed the receipt. Obviously, they are not applying resources to help improve the conditions of teachers."
The Governor denied that the response capacity of his government had been exceeded, since
"we act with great caution; we knew the direction of their demands; what they wanted is that they might have people killed and injured."The Governor explained that with the approval of the amendments to the General Education Act of Guerrero by the local Congress, a chapter is closed in the teachers' conflict, and he called on the dissidents to proceed with the resumption of classes.
"Provocateurs Infiltrated"
In Chilpancingo, the Secretary of Government, Humberto Salgado Gómez, reproved the destruction caused to the premises of the political parties. Although initially he said "they were provocateurs who infiltrated the movement," he announced that preliminary investigations were initiated against the teachers.
At almost 6:00 PM, Salgado Gómez gave a press conference with the prosecutor Martha Elba Garzón Bernal; Silvia Romero, from the Secretariat of Education in the state, and the head of Safety, Guillermo Jiménez Padilla.
In Chilpancingo, the Secretary of Government, Humberto Salgado Gómez, reproved the destruction caused to the premises of the political parties. Although initially he said "they were provocateurs who infiltrated the movement," he announced that preliminary investigations were initiated against the teachers.
At almost 6:00 PM, Salgado Gómez gave a press conference with the prosecutor Martha Elba Garzón Bernal; Silvia Romero, from the Secretariat of Education in the state, and the head of Safety, Guillermo Jiménez Padilla.
"There will be no exemptions, those responsible will have to bear their guilt," he warned.Spanish original