Mexico: General Strike on November 20 for Missing Students

The Mexican Inter-university Students Assembly, chaired by the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training School “Isidro Burgos,” announced a national strike on November 20 to protest the government’s ineffective investigation in the case of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students.

The assembly, attended by students from 79 schools, decided to support the national strike summoned by the parents of the missing students.

The actions announced for November 20 include the seizure of the International Airport of Mexico City and a one-day strike at different schools, companies and organizations throughout the country.

Another measure called for by the assembly is the boycott of the “Good Weekend,” the Mexican version of “Black Friday” in the United States which is an unofficial shopping holiday. The assembly urged Mexicans to not buy anything during this weekend which occurs November 14-17.

The assembly also called for the boycott of the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games, which will take place in Veracruz, Mexico, from November 14-30.

The boycott actions against the Central American and Caribbean Games started Wednesday when students of the University of Veracruz’s Faculty of Humanities extinguished the fire of the game’s torch with buckets of water during its travel through the city of Xalapa. The students shouted mottos such as, “We don’t want games, we want justice.”