Government Accepts Mexico Student Demands in Bid to Avert Spread of Protests Fox News Latino
go to original October 4, 2014

Student protesters swarm Mexico City over reforms (RuptlyTV)

Mexico's government has accepted all the demands of student protesters at the National Polytechnic Institute, or IPN, a public university in this capital, in a bid to prevent the movement from spreading to other higher education institutions.

On Sept. 22, students at the IPN's Superior School of Engineering and Architecture halted activities to protest new internal regulations that they said lowered the institution's academic and professional level.

The movement quickly grew and seemed on the verge of expanding to all of the country's public universities.

Mexico's government secretary, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, received a list of 10 demands four days ago from the students and on Friday said in an address to thousands of students outside his ministry's headquarters that all of them had been officially accepted.

The government's rapid response reflects its fear of new student demonstrations two years after the rise of the "Yo soy 132" student movement, when started in May 2012, shortly before Enrique Peña Nieto's victory in that year's presidential election returned the once-hegemonic Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, to power.

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