Laura Poy and Luis A. Boffil
Correspondent
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, February 1, 2026, p. 8
Mérida, Yuc., Leaders of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) agreed, in a session of their National Representative Assembly (ANR), held in Mérida, Yucatán, to promote a day of brigade in the country that allows “generating the conditions to carry out a 72-hour national strike.”
In a separate interview, the leaders Pedro Hernández Morales, from section 9 of Mexico City, and Filiberto Frausto Orozco, from section 34 of Zacatecas, indicated that the federal government “maintains a policy of closure in the face of demands for the repeal of the Law of the Institute of Security and Social Services of State Workers (Issste) 2007 and the so-called Usicamm Law (Unity of the System for the Career of Teachers). and the Teachers), which continues to wreak havoc on the teaching profession.”
Frausto Orozco indicated that “probably this brigade day could be extended from February to April, and a new day of struggle could be held next June. That is why we want to have the conditions; in particular, to bring the information to all our comrades in the country, and also know their demands.”
For his part, Hernández Morales, who recalled that on January 30, 45 years since the murder of the teacher and social activist Misael Núñez Acosta, difficult times for the teachers’ movement and the country are once again facing, he emphasized that “as long as there are teachers fighting, there will not be a people on its knees,” which is why he urged all CNTE contingents to participate in the preparations for the day of struggle.
The leader of section 7 of Chiapas, Isael González, also attended the meeting, who assured that “there are conditions to reach a 72-hour strike, and even a new national strike.” Likewise, Yenny Aracely Pérez attended from section 22 of Oaxaca; from the 14th of Guerrero, Elvira Veleces; and from the 18th of Michoacán, Eva Hinojosa Tera, among other teacher leaders, who, until the closing of this edition, continue in the work of the ANR.
In the morning, hundreds of CNTE teachers demonstrated in front of the Government Palace of the Yucatecan capital, where they called to join the work stoppage.
During the protest, Professor Veleces accused the federal government of turning a “deaf ear” and denounced that, despite the official campaign speech on the repeal of the Issste Law and educational reform, “we have not seen it come to fruition.”
The leader of the State Coordinator of Education Workers of Guerrero added that dialogue with the CNTE has not been resumed and that the reforms continue to affect the rights of education workers.
