Chaos in Oaxaca and Chiapas due to CNTE blockades

In Oaxaca, several shopping centers were closed due to blockades and in Chiapas there is already a gasoline shortage.

OAXACA, Oax.-Teachers belonging to the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE), blocked shopping centers in the city of Oaxaca and surrounding municipalities on the 14th day of mobilizations.

The teachers arrived at the shopping centers at 9 in the morning to close the entrances to the most important commercial businesses.

The closed shopping centers were: Plaza del Valle, Plaza Crystal, Macroplaza, Bodega Aurrera in Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, Chedraui peripheral.

For this reason, businesses closed their doors with padlocks, shopping centers looked empty and workers left the place.

Meanwhile, teachers placed tarps to protect themselves from the sun during their demonstrations.

This Monday afternoon, the Oaxaca teachers will have an assembly to consult whether the indefinite strike continues or is lifted.

Meanwhile, the government of Oaxaca has indicated that it has met most of the teachers’ demands and hopes that they will return to the classrooms in the next few hours.

More than 960 thousand students are affected by the strike carried out by the teachers of Oaxaca to request the repeal of the ISSSTE reform and the repeal of the educational reform.

Fuel shortage in Chiapas

Panic purchases and long lines of vehicles were recorded this Monday at gas stations in the state capital and in other nearby municipalities, due to the fuel shortage resulting from the blockade of the Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) storage plant maintained by teachers. of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE).

Since last Thursday, CNTE teachers took over the PEMEX storage plant to the west of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, to boycott the entry and exit of pipes from the various private companies that supply or provide gasoline and diesel to the gas stations in the center of the city. state.

The teachers set up their tents there and crossed some tank cars waiting to load fuel.

Since Saturday, warnings began that some gas stations already had a low fuel reserve and that they could soon close their operations. It was since Sunday that the first gas stations in the state capital began to announce that they had already run out of fuel.

Starting this Monday, thousands of motorists began to form long lines at some gas stations where fuel was still available, some claiming that they no longer had Magna and that they only had Premium left.

Since last May 15, CNTE teachers have held a sit-in in the central square of Tuxtla and a work stoppage. In many of the schools that still had classes, teachers began to visit them and bring out students and teachers to join the strike and put CLOSED stamps.

On May 22, the teachers took over several gas stations in Tuxtla and in some of them they began to fill, without payment, the tanks of motorists who passed through their ration of 15 liters per unit.

The CNTE teachers allege a list of demands raised by their national leaders on the Zócalo platform in Mexico City.

Source: elfinanciero