Mexico Students Vote to End Strike
Students at Mexico’s largest university voted Sunday to end an 18-day strike over proposed academic reforms, which included an increase in fees, but conditioned a return to classes on the administration promising not to punish strike leaders.
Members of the University Student Council, an ad hoc body formed last fall to fight the reform package, voted 35-11 Sunday to end the strike.
Council members scheduled a meeting today with officials of the National Autonomous University of Mexico on their terms for ending the strike, which begun Jan. 29.
The strike nearly paralyzed the main campus of the university, which has about 330,000 students in its undergraduate and graduate departments, affiliated high schools and professional schools.
Several dozen classes have continued meeting off-campus, however, and student leaders said they will demand that the administration deny recognition of those sessions as legitimate class time.
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