Students protest at the inauguration of the FIL of the IPN

Fernando Camacho Servin

Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, October 8, 2022, p. 9

A group of students from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) protested yesterday during the inauguration of the 34th edition of the International Book Fair (FIL) of said educational body to make visible the demands of the various schools that have carried out work stoppages in recent days. .

Coming from schools such as the higher schools of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and Chemical Engineering and Extractive Industries (Esiqie), among others, the young people chanted slogans upon their arrival at the Jaime Torres Bodet Cultural Center and held banners with phrases such as They are more interested in the fair than meeting our demands either Demanding quality education is not vandalism.

Emphasizing that their mobilization was peaceful, they demanded transparency in the use of the IPN budget, attention to cases of gender violence and sufficient space for students, among other demands, and toured various points of the fair, without interrupting the activities carried out. cape.

Prevent library closure

For its part, the Polytechnic issued a statement in which it reported that prevented a group of young people from some academic units from chaining the access doors to the Víctor Bravo Ahuja National Library of Science and Technology and the Jaime Torres Bodet Cultural Center, located in the Zacatenco Unit. According to the institute, “upon being alerted by surveillance personnel of this attempted blockade, the general secretary of the IPN, Carlos Ruiz Cárdenas, went to the place accompanied by the secretary of Administration, Javier Tapia Santoyo, and other officials.

Staff of the institution was forced to break the chains that the young people placed on the perimeter doors with pliers, without having produced any confrontation or altercation.he stressed, adding that the secretary general of the IPN, Carlos Ruiz Cárdenas, accompanied by the office manager of the Academic Secretariat, Mauricio Igor Jasso Zaranda, went to the Esiqie facilities, together with its director, Guadalupe Silva Oliver, to talk with students.

Meanwhile, the student assembly of the Higher School of Commerce and Administration, Tepepan Unit, reported that on Thursday a interpolytechnic board to analyze the response of the director general of the IPN, Arturo Reyes Sandoval, to the petition. In a statement, the students pointed out that the meeting was attended by students from UNAM, invited to join to the fight for public educationwithin which they will convene a march of various universities.