Teachers Protest In Mexico

Mexico's air force flew tons of grain to the southern state of Oaxaca on Friday as protests by teachers opposed to education reform spread across the country and road blocks led to dwindling food supplies in some remote regions.

The Mexican authorities investigated today whether police were responsible for any deaths in weekend violence that killed 10 people amid protests by teachers opposed to the government's education reform.

At least eight people were killed in clashes in southern Mexico over the weekend when police and members of a teachers' union faced off in violent confrontations, a senior state official said, piling fresh pressure on the country's embattled ruling party.

Unknown gunmen opened fired as police and teachers clashed in southern Mexico on Sunday during a protest that left six people dead and more than 100 injured, authorities said.

Mexico's government will fire more than 3,300 teachers who skipped evaluations under a controversial education reform that has sparked protest in the country's poorest states, authorities said Monday.

Mexican federal police rejected accusations by a teacher's union on Wednesday that a 65-year-old protestor died after being beaten by officers during a demonstration in Acapulco.

The wife of a Mexican politician suspected of helping to plot the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers in September will be tried for engaging in organized crime, the federal courts authority said on Monday.

The family of the first victim identified among 43 missing Mexican students lamented the dashed dreams of the aspiring teacher Sunday, calling for justice in the case that has shocked the country.

Grappling with outrage over violence and impunity after the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Tuesday accused unspecified groups of seeking to destabilize his government.

Hundreds of students and teachers smashed windows and set fires inside a state capital building in southern Mexico on Monday, as fury erupted over the disappearance of 43 young people believed abducted by local police linked to a drug cartel.

The attack came amid social tensions in a town, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of Mexico City, where protesting students from a teachers college had tried to seize three buses.

Mexico's air force flew tons of grain to the southern state of Oaxaca on Friday as protests by teachers opposed to education reform spread across the country and road blocks led to dwindling food supplies in some remote regions.

The Mexican authorities investigated today whether police were responsible for any deaths in weekend violence that killed 10 people amid protests by teachers opposed to the government's education reform.

At least eight people were killed in clashes in southern Mexico over the weekend when police and members of a teachers' union faced off in violent confrontations, a senior state official said, piling fresh pressure on the country's embattled ruling party.

Unknown gunmen opened fired as police and teachers clashed in southern Mexico on Sunday during a protest that left six people dead and more than 100 injured, authorities said.

Mexico's government will fire more than 3,300 teachers who skipped evaluations under a controversial education reform that has sparked protest in the country's poorest states, authorities said Monday.

Mexican federal police rejected accusations by a teacher's union on Wednesday that a 65-year-old protestor died after being beaten by officers during a demonstration in Acapulco.

The wife of a Mexican politician suspected of helping to plot the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers in September will be tried for engaging in organized crime, the federal courts authority said on Monday.

The family of the first victim identified among 43 missing Mexican students lamented the dashed dreams of the aspiring teacher Sunday, calling for justice in the case that has shocked the country.

Grappling with outrage over violence and impunity after the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Tuesday accused unspecified groups of seeking to destabilize his government.

Hundreds of students and teachers smashed windows and set fires inside a state capital building in southern Mexico on Monday, as fury erupted over the disappearance of 43 young people believed abducted by local police linked to a drug cartel.

The attack came amid social tensions in a town, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of Mexico City, where protesting students from a teachers college had tried to seize three buses.