Mactumactzá in the Crosshairs
In the wake of the violent detention of 95 students of Mactumactzá, Tanalis Padilla provides this excellent 3-minute history of the legacy and struggle of the Rural Normal Schools in Mexico.
In the wake of the violent detention of 95 students of Mactumactzá, Tanalis Padilla provides this excellent 3-minute history of the legacy and struggle of the Rural Normal Schools in Mexico.
Judge grants conditional release of 74 female normalistas, but witha trial pending, a means by which ongoing persecution of the students can continue.
State police evicted and detained students from the rural normal school of Mactumactzá in Chiapas who were demanding the in-person application of their new entrance exam. All 95 students detained now face the crimes of rioting, gang membership, robbery with violence, damages and attacks on communication routes. Relatives, students and teachers marched to demand the release of the students.