Clashes between police, teachers leave 4 dead in Mexico
Clashes between police, teachers leave 4 dead in Mexico
Jun 19, 7:15 PM EDT
By SAYRA CRUZ
OAXACA, Mexico (AP) -- Violent clashes between police and unionized teachers who were blockading roads and burning vehicles in southern Mexico left four people dead on Sunday, according to union and state officials.
The radical union, which goes by the initials CNTE, is opposed to the mandatory testing of teachers as part of the government's sweeping education reform and is also protesting the arrest of union leaders on money laundering and other charges.
Sunday's clashes involved federal and state police. An Associated Press journalist saw riot police firing on protesters in the municipality of Nochixtlan in southern Oaxaca state, in an attempt to dislodge them.
Isabel Garcia, a member of the CNTE's political commission, said three people supporting the protests were killed. She provided no further details.
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