La Jornada: Ernesto Martinez Elorriaga
Morelia, Michoacán - On Monday, students from the Indigenous Normal School [teachers college] of Cherán retained vehicles, including buses and delivery trucks, to demand 1,300 guaranteed teaching positions for graduates of the eight normal schools in the state. In turn, students from the Vasco de Quiroga Rural Normal School in Tiripetío took to the the streets of the capital of Michoacán.
Vehicles retained by Purépecha students were transferred to the community of Turicuaro in the municipality of Nahuatzen [in the Purepecha Highlands], about 20 kilometers [12 miles] from Cherán. Parents supported this act of protest because "it is a just demand", said sources from the community.
The Secretariat of Public Safety reported that among the retained units are four buses from the ENT and Autovias lines and a Holanda [ice cream] delivery truck.
In Morelia, four students were arrested after they tried to hijack a Bimbo [bread] company truck. Six of their companions escaped. The leaders of the movement claimed that if they are not freed by Tuesday morning, they will take radical measures. [Other news reports state that they were freed after paying a fine]. Meanwhile, about 300 normal school students reoccupied Madero Avenue in front of the government palace and surrounding streets, as they have done for the past week. About 7:00 PM they withdrew their blockade. ...
With information from NOTIMEX [Mexico government news agency] Spanish original