LatinNews Daily - 9 June 2025

*Teachers affiliated with Mexico’s influential Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE) teachers’ union have left Mexico City (CDMX) after over three weeks of protest and strike action in the capital. According to a CNTE statement, this does not represent the end of its protest action but rather “a reorganisation phase”. The union has been staging protests around CDMX including a sit-in in the main square, or Zócalo, since 15 May. Among other things, the teachers are demanding the repeal of the 2007 reform to the federal public workers’ social security institute (ISSSTE), which changed the way pensions are distributed. While President Claudia Sheinbaum has made it clear her government does not agree with the 2007 reform, she has said her government lacks the budget to revert fully to the previous pension system. On 28 May the government presented a new proposal to the CNTE to improve the conditions of ISSSTE pensions and establish an interdisciplinary collective to analyse possible alternatives and continue improving the pension system and other issues. The government has also frozen the retirement age of teachers and announced a 10% pay rise, among other concessions. However, the CNTE has rejected the proposal and other measures as insufficient and pledged to continue its protest action.

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