Because of this there have been almost no classes. The labor unions are really helping out, and even sometimes the campesino unions which is really amazing because they are so poor. There were more than 200,000 people-workers, students, campesinos. The parents of the students have been important supporters. The majority of those parents lived through '68 when they saw many students gunned down, many of them their comrades at the time.
Nobody wants to repeat that.
So they are willing to support their jailed kids in this fight. In fact, this was only the second time police have entered the university since 1968 because in 1977 there was a strike of university workers for a wage increase. After two months the police crushed it. Because we are aware that the intent of the government is to repress, to crush any ideas, any movement of the students, we have been strong. We know the reality of the situation.