▲ As part of their mobilizations, dissidents kept the toll booths up for more than three hours yesterday morning. Image of the Mexico-Cuernavaca highway.Photo Jair Cabrera Torres
Jared Laureles and Fernando Camacho
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 15, 2025, p. 6
The National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) yesterday withdrew the sit-in that it had installed since Thursday around the Chamber of Deputies, but threatened a 72-hour strike, with a view to a national strike, if the federal government does not meet its demands.
After returning to the San Lázaro camp after participating in the “liberation” of the toll booths on various highways in the morning, the teachers’ movement announced the end of the 48-hour work stoppage and the return of some 5,000 teachers to their states of origin.
The CNTE insisted that it will boycott the 2026 Soccer World Cup if the authorities do not respond to its demands, among which are the restart of the dialogue table with the President – whose last session was in March – and the repeal of the 2007 Issste Law.
Amid slogans such as “a lie, it’s not true, nothing is resolved” and “if there is no solution, your ball won’t roll,” the national leadership once again regretted that they were received on Thursday in the Zócalo with “repression,” which in their opinion shows that the Executive has no real desire for dialogue with the teachers.
Luis Antonio Rosales Narváez, general secretary of section 7 of the CNTE, of Chiapas, announced that the teachers called on Sheinbaum to respond to the teachers’ requests “in a timely and prompt manner”, since otherwise “a 72-hour strike and a national strike will come with greater organization and forcefulness.”
For his part, Pedro Hernández Morales, leader of section 9 of Mexico City, challenged the Executive to “a public debate to see who is telling lies and who is telling truths” regarding the reasons that led to the suspension of the dialogue.
Yenny Pérez Martínez, leader of section 22, from Oaxaca, stressed that in the dissident teaching profession “we are going to organize ourselves in our next national representative assembly, on the 22nd of this month,” where the different state committees will define the date of the 72-hour strike.
Since the early hours of yesterday, in a second day of mobilizations, hundreds of dissidents gave “free passage” in various booths for more than three hours: while members of section 22 of Oaxaca did so in San Marcos, Mexico-Puebla, activists from sections 9, 10, 11 and 60 raised feathers in Mexico-Cuernavaca, and others in Chalco.
“This is our Good End gift to the people who circulate on these roads. We are not charging any pesos, so that later it will not be said that we did a business or that we received money. Today (yesterday) is the liberation of the booths totally free,” said Hernández Morales.
Protests in states
In Chiapas, teachers from section 7 blocked vehicle access to the Ángel Albino Corzo airport and took three checkpoints on two toll roads. Meanwhile, in Guerrero, Ceteg teachers condemned the repression against their colleagues who demonstrated in the vicinity of the National Palace on Thursday.
In Chihuahua, professors from the Teacher Defense Network, a dissident group of Section 8 of the SNTE, allowed the free movement of cars and pedestrians on the Paso del Norte border bridge, in Ciudad Juárez. Likewise, teachers from the federal educational subsystem joined the strike in the municipalities of Madera, Parral and in the state capital.
In Oaxaca, the mentors continued with the takeover of toll booths at the state level, where free transit was allowed, and demonstrated in commercial plazas in the capital and suburban municipalities.
(With information from correspondents)
