Petro reveals strategy to change Colombia’s socio-economic model
How Colombia’s judicial reform seeks to solve prison...
Colombia’s chief prosecutor says paramilitaries kidnapped, interrogated investigators
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal to press criminal charges...
Colombia jails US citizen on femicide charges
Colombia preparing tropical paradise for tourism after 500...
Hacktivists leak 178,000 documents from Colombia’s military
Colombia sentenced for exterminating political party
Colombia’s capital Bogota awarded for failing crime policy
OAS urges Colombia to release people arrested over...
  • About
  • Support
  • Newsletter
  • Contact
Colombia News | Colombia Reports
  • News
    • General
    • Analysis
    • War and peace
    • Elections
    • Economy
    • Culture
    • Sports
    • Science and Tech
  • Travel
    • General
    • Bogota
    • Medellin
    • Cali
    • Cartagena
    • Antioquia
    • Caribbean
    • Pacific
    • Coffee region
    • Amazon
    • Southwest Colombia
    • Northeast Colombia
    • Central Colombia
  • Data
    • Economy
    • Crime and security
    • War and peace
    • Development
    • Cities
    • Regions
    • Provinces
  • Profiles
    • Organized crime
    • Politics
    • Armed conflict
    • Economy
    • Sports
  • Lite
  • Opinion
News

Students to protest despite offer to withdraw education reform bill

by Jean Carrere November 9, 2011
1.1k

Student protest

Colombian students say they maintain massive protests scheduled on Thursday, despite President Juan Manuel Santos’ proposal to withdraw a controversial reform on education.

Santos told the students that he “accepts the withdrawal of the project of education reform only if the [student] strike is ended and classes are continued.”

However, the students say they will not end the strike until after the President has withdrawn the reform and maintained they would “shut down” the Colombian capital and massively protest in other cities, with the support of labor unions.

Sergio Fernandez, a leader of the Alternative National Education Board (MANE), told newspaper El Tiempo that Santos’ announcement “demonstrates the truthfulness of our arguments, that we are right.”

According to El Tiempo, the students refuse to comply with Santos because the president’s offer only met one out of several demands – the others related with the construction of a new proposal of reform and of student mobilization.

“We need to feel secure about the methodology that will be used to create the new proposal, we need a guarantee that we will be involved, and until we know how this process will be, we will maintain the strike”, told Juan Sebastian Lopez, a member of the operative committee for the MANE.

The students described Thursday’s march as “the biggest in a generation. Not even a car will be able to move if the students don’t allow it.”

educationJuan Manuel Santosstudent protests

Trending

  • Colombia jails US citizen on femicide charges

  • Colombia’s war crimes tribunal to press criminal charges over failed plot to extradite former FARC chief

  • Petro’s reveals strategy to change Colombia’s socio-economic model

For patrons

Downloads for patrons

Related articles

  • Colombia’s former president in Ukraine to urge global solidarity

  • Student leader assassinated in southwest Colombia

  • Colombia’s former president asks forgiveness for mass killing of civilians

  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Rss

@2008-2019 - Colombia Reports. All Rights Reserved.
Powered by Digitale Zaken and Parrolabs


Back To Top
Colombia News | Colombia Reports
  • News
    • General
    • Analysis
    • War and peace
    • Elections
    • Economy
    • Culture
    • Sports
    • Science and Tech
  • Travel
    • General
    • Bogota
    • Medellin
    • Cali
    • Cartagena
    • Antioquia
    • Caribbean
    • Pacific
    • Coffee region
    • Amazon
    • Southwest Colombia
    • Northeast Colombia
    • Central Colombia
  • Data
    • Economy
    • Crime and security
    • War and peace
    • Development
    • Cities
    • Regions
    • Provinces
  • Profiles
    • Organized crime
    • Politics
    • Armed conflict
    • Economy
    • Sports
  • Lite
  • Opinion