translated from Spanish: Rector Graue does not provide general strike at the UNAM

Wednesday Enrique Graue, general rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), said that the stoppages in at least 35 schools and faculties of the maximum House of studies, do not represent a general strike and hopes that the movement does not grow and campuses will return to classes in the coming days.
Read: UNAM identifies and drives out to 18 students by attacks on students in rectory considers that actions in these schools are not a “spontaneous movement”, but are the result of the great indignation of the student community after the aggression raised last Monday against the Dean tower where at least 14 young people were attacked by porriles groups.
In an interview with Carlos Loret de Mola to Radio Centro rector explained that there are 24 to 32 hours doles and “there are who are put on indefinite strike, but we expect to reconsider it so we are returning to the act in the course of this week or beginning of the next ividades”.
Read: How did the conflict of the CCH Azcapotzalco, whereby the UNAM campus are unemployed?
In relation to the injured students, added that two of them are still serious and even one of them would be intervened by internal bleeding that presents in the kidney.
“Both are interned in hospitals of the IMSS. The latest report I have 6:40 in the morning says that they are stable but serious. The two are at risk”.
While the other 12 injured have minor injuries and are out of danger.
Add expelled 18 and more than 30 identified Graue explained that so far they have expelled permanently 18 of offenders identified as students, along with 35 other that were already identified but his academic situation is unknown.
Read: does affect the closure of the UNAM porriles groups?
The identity of these will be given out in due course, he said.
With regard to the context of violence facing the University, Graue commented that they did not expect an attack of this magnitude. He accepted that in past weeks “small outbreaks of violence” had been recorded caused by porriles groups in the CCH Azcapotzalco, a result of student protests but not be comparing with the stems on Monday.
“These fights are completely unrelated to the University interests, even were orchestrated abroad by these porriles groups, which are nothing more than triggers from the CCH Azcapotzalco, Vallejo and Naucalpan (…)” We also have involved people outside the University”.
The rector says that so far do not find explanation for aggressions against students and ruled out having to do with the political context of the country or any political party to be involved: “serious to speculate, we have no evidence and we must not University authorities involved in the issue, deny it categorically”.
He said that there is an internal investigation of the facts by means of which identifies those responsible to expel them in case of being members of the student community while the rest of the evidence are channeled to the Attorney General capital. “What we do believe is that these porriles groups are managed by someone else;  who got you in the truck?, how are moved?, who orchestrated them? (…) We hope to have a response from the authorities as soon as possible”.
It was on Monday 3 September when students of the CCH Azcapotzalco were attacked with stones and sticks by a group of porriles, composed of young people who wore jerseys with the coat of arms of the UNAM, performed while a house opposite the rectory Tower.
High school students went to the Esplanade to raise demands to the authorities of the University national autonomous of Mexico (UNAM), about the strike that kept in the CCH Azcapotzalco.
 
Radio Center information. 

Original source in Spanish

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