Two Weeks Without Classes in Michoacan Because of Religious Conflict Prensa Latina
go to original September 4, 2012

A girl wearing the style of clothes required by the Virgin of the Rosary sect in the Mexican state of Michoacan walks through the rubble of a primary school on July 18, 2012. The building was destroyed by conservative followers of the group, who claimed mainstream schools were introducing vice into their community. (AFP/Getty)

After two weeks without classes in the community of New Jerusalem, the Mexican state of Michoacán, parents prefer their children miss the school to send them to study in schools of nearby communities, the press stands today.

According to the spokesman of the so-called Layr group, Emiliano Juarez, if they accept that basic education is given in a nearby community would be endorsing a banishment from New Jerusalem, reported the newspaper Milenio.

Juarez said that would indicate that there is supremacy of the group headed by Martin de Tours to impose its will, even above the rule of law.

Parents insist on the construction of a school of their own and restore order in the town, he stated.

He also said that the only way children can return to school without the fear that their schools will be attack again by fans.

The Turicato president, Salvador Barrera, considered the conflict far from approaching a solution is emerging into a new episode.

To gain progress to defuse the conflict depends on the position assume by the leading radical group of Tours, he added.

Meanwhile, Wednesday is the 10-day deadline put by the state government to delivered mobile classrooms ordered to be built in the town of La Grafted, about 300 meters from the entrance to the New Jerusalem Chapel, and thus start the school year.

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