Nestor Jimenez
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, November 26, 2024, p. 12
The Ministry of the Interior was paralyzed yesterday with two simultaneous protests. On Bucareli Avenue, teachers from section 18 of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE), from Michoacán, set up a sit-in permanent
with the demand for an increase in the budget for the educational sector. Meanwhile, on Abraham González Street, at the other entrance of the agency, 200 corn producers from 10 entities closed the road in request that the guarantee price for this product be set at 7.10 pesos per kilogram, a cost that was established in the last six-year term.
The members of the CNTE arrived shortly after 2 p.m. in a dozen buses and later set up the tents.
Brandon Rosas Pimentel, technical secretary of organization of section 18, maintained that they will be there until the teachers’ demands are met. The actions, he said, are part of the agreements agreed between the Michoacan teachers. He estimated that today, the Secretary General, Jairo Antonio Mandujano Ortega, will begin conversations with representatives of the Government.
In the entity there has not been a positive response to education workers, mainly those in the state system, where the budget has not been sufficient
he explained. They announced that they plan to go to the Chamber of Deputies in the following days. In addition, he reproached the fact that there are temporary teachers who have been in arrears for more than four years.
Among their demands is the disappearance of the System Unit for the Career of Teachers. In addition, he assured that there are 700 teachers who make up the camp.
On the other side of the dependency, the corn producers arrived in the early hours of the morning. Serapio Vargas, national president of the Corn Product System, demanded that The guarantee price left by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador is respected, since they currently intend to pay 1,070 pesos (per ton) to small producers
. He warned that this rate does not cover the costs of cultivation.
Farmers from Sinaloa, Puebla and Zacatecas, among others, detailed that a year ago Segalmex bought corn at 7.10 pesos per kilogram, but now it offers 6 pesos.
