Mexico’s crucial education reform risks being unwound
The leading presidential candidate has vowed to overturn the law
IN 1918 Mexico became one of the first countries in the world to declare an annual Teachers’ Day holiday. The 100th anniversary, on May 15th, was a politicised affair. Enrique Peña Nieto, the lame-duck president, gave a speech at an official celebration. Meanwhile, members of the National Co-ordinator of Education Workers (CNTE), a strident teachers’ union, took to the streets. They were protesting against the education reform Mr Peña signed in 2013—whose effects are now being felt both by the students he hoped to aid and by the unions he tried to weaken.
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