Do Teachers In Oaxaca Teach?

I can remember the teachers of Oaxaca protesting about 10 years ago, so it seems this is nothing new.

Actually the problem with the teachers in Oaxaca began in earnest 9 years ago and has led to the interruption or cancellation of the Guelaguetza twice now if I recall correctly. None of their protests ever had anything to do with improving the quality of education for their students. Then, after one of the people responsible for the violence got arrested, they protested again for several more months. The students bedamned. The teachers here in Guerrero have been increasingly following their lead, though the quality of education has suffered most seriously here since Elba Esther Gordillo came to power as the head of the largest teacher's union back the same year I moved here in 1989.

It was during the so-called teachers' protests (it's an insult to the profession to call them teachers) of 2006 that the US photographer Brad Will was murdered.