Overview
- Teachers tried to push down metal barricades around the National Palace in the morning, and police used pepper spray after protesters discharged fire extinguishers.
- Marchers moved to San Lázaro and set up a plantón outside the Chamber of Deputies, blocking nearby streets and planning to stay through Friday.
- Mexico City Metro closed Zócalo-Tenochtitlán, Allende and Pino Suárez stations for security, and key downtown avenues experienced rolling closures.
- The action spans multiple states with tactics such as tollbooth liberations and municipal blockades, and CNTE leaders warn they will escalate if talks yield no results.
- Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez called for protest without harming the public, and President Claudia Sheinbaum said dialogue is open but funding is not available to abrogate the 2007 ISSSTE law.