page_title: Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca
section_title: 2006 Oaxaca protests
hierarchical_section_title: Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca / 2006 Oaxaca protests
caption_attribution_description: English: Panoramic photo of the Centro Cultural Universario building and the Rectoria at the Universidad Autónoma "Benito Juárez" de Oaxaca in Oaxaca, Mexico Español: Foto panorámica del Centro Cultural Universario y la Rectoría de la Universidad Autónoma "Benito Juárez" de Oaxaca, en Oaxaca, México.
context_page_description: The Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca is a public university located in the city of Oaxaca de Juárez in state of Oaxaca, Mexico.
  The University was founded on January 8, 1827 as the Oaxacan Institute for Arts and Sciences. Initially courses were offered in Medicine, Surgery, Civil and Natural Law, Public Law, Canon Law and Ecclesiastical History, Political Economy, Statistics, Geography and Physics, Mathematics, Logic, Ethics, English, and French.
context_section_description: In May 2006, a teachers' strike began in the Zócalo in the Mexican city of Oaxaca, Oaxaca.  2006 was the 25th consecutive year that Oaxaca's teachers have struck. Previously, the protests had generally lasted for one to two weeks and had resulted in small raises for teachers.  The 2006 strike began in protest of the low funding for teachers and rural schools in the state, but was prompted to additionally call for the resignation of the state governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz after 3000 police were sent to break up the occupation in the early morning of June 14, 2006.  A street battle lasted for several hours that day, resulting in more than one hundred hospitalizations but no fatalities.  Ortiz declared that he would not resign.
  On November 2, 2006, Federal Preventative Police advanced on the University, occupied by students and displaced protesters from the Zocalo.  Since the University is autonomous, the police are forbidden from entering the grounds, unless invited by the Rector.
  Thousands of protesters arrived in the following hours, surrounding the police and eventually forcing them to withdraw from the area surrounding the university. The Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca had received permission by the university rector to broadcast their messages through the university radio, which they used to criticise political parties, the Institutional Revolutionary Party specifically. Opinions against the APPO were quickly taken off the air 
  After criticism by the private sector, political organizations and the press (specifically Grupo Formula's news anchor Denise Maerker) for his remarks towards the APPO the rector declared that he had requested respect for the rights of students and faculty  and that an operational attempt by the Federal Police would not provide a solution to the issue
caption: Panoramic photo of the Centro Cultural Universitario & Rectoria on the main campus of UABJO.
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