translated from Spanish: Protest against ‘Garrote Law’ in front of Tabasco Congress

Tabasco.- Less than a week after the “Garrote Law” came into force in the state of Tabasco, which limits the demonstrations in the entity, members of the Union of Administrative Workers and Intendency of the Juárez Autonomous University of Tabasco (UJAT) demonstrated on Thursday in front of the State Congress in protest. It was in the Plaza de Armas, in front of the premises of the Legislative Power, that dozens of workers gathered with banners demanding a stop to the “Garrote Law”, which criminalizes the act of manifesting, they consider.

In addition, the workers demanded that their year-end payments be guaranteed, as the current situation regarding this is uncertain after the union’s conflict secretary, Rosa Collado Córdova, announced that the universities listed in the called “master scam” will be deprived of resources in September, which in turn will complicate the making of your payments by the end of this year. Upon the arrival of protesters, elements of the State Police flocked to the area, while a helicopter from the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) repeatedly flew over the site.
The adoption of this new law and its entry into force will affect the interests of the workers of the union, in addition to attacking the right to express themselves freely on public roads, considered the Secretary General of STAIJUAT, Lorenzo Román Arias, so that they decided to hand over a text expressing their opposition to the Commission on Legislative Public Security.

Original source in Spanish