▲ According to the students, at least 11 campuses remain without activities. In the image, protest in Zacatenco last day 13.Photo Luis Castillo
From the Writing
Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, September 18, 2022, p. 10
The general director of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Arturo Reyes Sandoval, announced four new appointments to the governing body of that house of studies.
After the public commitment with the student community to fulfill the 12 points of his petition, Reyes Sandoval reported that Carlos Ruiz Cárdenas will be in charge of the office in the general secretariat, which occupied Juan Manuel Cantú Vázquez.
Mauricio Igor Jasso Zaranda will perform the same function in the academic secretariat, headed by Lorenzo Javier Reyes Trujillo. The above are two of the highest hierarchical positions at the Polytechnic.
Elizabeth Cabrera Chávez was appointed director of the Polytechnic Unit for Management with a Gender Perspective and Margarito Mendoza Hernández in charge of the office of the Prevention and Security Coordination.
Ruiz Cárdenas was director of Higher Secondary Education at the IPN and at the Wilfrido Massieu Center for Scientific and Technological Studies. Jasso Zaranda is an economist from the IPN and a master in applied public management. He was director of Human Capital Higher Education; head of the Budget Division and Director of Planning, among other positions.
Cabrera Chávez has a law degree from UNAM and is a specialist in gender matters. Margarito Mendoza Hernández is an economist from the IPN.
The appointments take place in the context of the protests and closures of schools that in recent weeks have been led by students in non-compliant areas. So far, at least 11 schools -especially higher education- are still on strike, in another eight they have already been lifted and in eight more there have been attempts to occupy.
In the midst of the conflict, the director of the IPN, Arturo Reyes Sandoval, responded last Wednesday to the petition, but until yesterday there was no definition of the students. Close sources indicated that it will not be until Monday morning when many student assemblies begin to meet, it will be known if they accept the institutional response and if they consider that the new appointments help to unblock the situation.
With information from Fernando Camacho Servin
