Overview
- Students gathered from 7 a.m. Tuesday at UMSNH’s Law Faculty annex on Revillagigedo Street in Morelia, blocking the roadway rather than meeting at the main campus.
- Organizers said they would take over facilities to publicize internal grievances and to demand statewide security guarantees following recent killings, including the assassination of Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo.
- Law students called for the release of eight people detained after protesters forced open the Government Palace in Morelia on Sunday, when police deployed tear gas to disperse the crowd.
- UMSNH’s Uruapan Professional Unit suspended academic and administrative activities as an act of solidarity, Nova Spania announced it would join the student strike, and Uvaq permitted voluntary participation while emphasizing education for peace.
- Since Sunday, demonstrations across Michoacán have included marches and blockades, an incursion into the Government Palace in Morelia, and building damage reported in Apatzingán.