New textbook backlash continues with protests, e-book burning
Protests towards the brand new textbooks being offered for the upcoming college yr by the Schooling Ministry (SEP) continued over the weekend in no less than two Mexican states. Within the northern-central state of Aguascalientes, hundreds of individuals marched on Sunday towards “the ideological content material” of the free textbooks, saying they're laced with “Marxist-communist” indoctrination. Estimating the group within the state capital of Aguascalientes at round 12,000 folks, newspaper El Common stated lots of the protesters have been members of oldsters’ teams and Christian organizations. In Aguascalientes, some 12,000 folks marched in protest towards the brand new textbooks. (Carlos Ramirez/X) In the meantime, in an evangelical Indigenous neighborhood within the southern state of Chiapas, dad and mom set fireplace to unopened packing containers of the textbooks outdoors Benito Juárez…
