Lilian Hernandez Osorio
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, October 17, 2025, p. 14
More than 400 academics and researchers from the 44 academic entities of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) issued a statement in which they urge the community, especially students, to return to the classrooms and restore normality to the institution.
They warned that maintaining strikes for demands that can be addressed through dialogue tables harms the academic life of the highest house of studies and encourages those who seek to destabilize it.
The document, addressed to the entire university community and public opinion, states that since the “criminal aggression” at the College of Sciences and Humanities (CCH) South, the national university was not only in mourning, but also faced a climate of fear and uncertainty, which “has become fertile ground for irrational, vandalistic, and rude provocation actions and reactions.”
The position states that the bomb threats, as well as the anonymous intimidating messages that spread on social networks, have only increased uncertainty, which is being taken advantage of by tiny external groups that harass the university, which is “unacceptable and unjustifiable.”
Small, underrepresented groups accuse
“The interruption of study, teaching and research work cannot be determined and canceled by small groups with very little representation,” states the letter from the signatory teachers and researchers from all areas of knowledge.
For this reason, they demand the return of the facilities and call on the communities of affected schools and faculties to hold a prompt deliberation in their schools, councils and other meeting spaces to return to work normally.
They considered that there are petition lists that raise understandable demands to improve security on their campuses or demands for cleaning and hygiene materials, but there are other demands that, in their opinion, border on the irrational, such as the case of the dismissal of professors for alleged ideologies, which represents a “parade of absurdities without a channel and without an institutional solution,” which as university students they should not allow.
