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Weekly Report - 19 April 2018 (WR-18-15)
MEXICO: CNTE takes stance against Meade
Mexico’s combative Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE) teachers’ union has made plain its feelings about José Antonio Meade, the presidential candidate of the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). CNTE members clashed with Meade supporters as they demonstrated against the PRI candidate during a campaign rally in the south-western state of Oaxaca. The CNTE says that it is opposed to Meade because as a former PRI government official he helped to push through the 2012-2013 education reform that the union continues to resist and wants to see repealed. But Meade has accused the CNTE of using violence to intimidate his supporters and of acting on behalf of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the presidential candidate of the left-wing opposition Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena).
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