Overview

• Agustín Jiménez stopped eating Monday morning and will continue his open-ended hunger strike until the regional government provides a definitive construction plan for the institute.
• Noblejas town council says it provided land in 2007 and that the education department assigned a project code in 2011 but last communicated in 2017.
• Jiménez holds President Emiliano García-Page’s administration responsible for failing to fulfill the promise that would spare students a daily 10-kilometer commute to Ocaña.
• Local officials have escalated the dispute to PSOE’s federal leadership and congressional groups and will host a press conference at town hall Tuesday.
• At 76 years old with diabetes and a history of aggressive lung cancer, Jiménez’s health vulnerabilities heighten the protest’s urgency and political stakes.