University Students Reject Mexican Government Proposals for Ending Protest Agencia EFE
go to original October 12, 2014

Protests against the disappearance of 43 students in southern Mexico intensified on Saturday when a group of masked youths blocked a main highway and hijacked four trucks and four buses. (Fusion)

Students at this capital's National Polytechnic Institute, or IPN, delivered their written rejection of a Mexican federal government proposal for ending their university-paralyzing protest.

The march in Mexico City involving thousands of students began at the Estela de Luz (Pillar of Light) monument and ended at two different points.

The most numerous group headed for Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco district, scene of the Oct. 2, 1968, student massacre and symbol of the fight against authoritarianism and repression in Mexico.

A second group headed to the Government Secretariat to deliver the student movement's written response to a proposal offered last Friday by President Enrique Peña Nieto's administration.

The students had already rejected the government's proposal earlier this week at an assembly, saying it was vague and incomplete and was merely a "media show" aimed at dismantling their movement.

The deputy government secretary, Luis Enrique Miranda, who received the students' response on Friday, told them that the government will deliver a new proposal on Tuesday.

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