Faced with the resistance actions against the appointment of José Antonio Romero Tellaeche as general director of the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE), the UNAM called for dialogue to resume academic activities.
In an information card, the National Autonomous University of Mexico asked that the different voices of the conflict “be heard in freedom and with openness; dialogue and harmonious coexistence are privileged and, within the framework of its normativity, academic activity is restored with unrestricted respect for ideological plurality”.
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— UNAM (@UNAM_MX) December 6, 2021
This, a day after the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) called on the students who took over the CIDE facilities in Mexico City and Aguascalientes since November 29 to release them as soon as possible, so as not to affect academic work, as well as “payments and other administrative processes.”
However, the student community requests the immediate removal of José Antonio Romero Tellaeche as general director of CIDE and with it a new process to elect a substitute, not reprisals for exercising his right to demonstrate, and the formation of a Student Assembly that participates in the administrative processes and in the decision-making of the research center.
The professors, formed in the Permanent Academic Assembly, ask for direct dialogue with the Ministry of the Interior, adherence to the right of the community in charge of directing scientific policy and to stop the harassment of the 31 researchers reported to the Attorney General’s Office.
The CIDE academic staff union requests that the disqualifications and intimidations cease, respecting the conditions of the collective bargaining agreement; and respect for the Statute of the CIDE, the freedoms of research, chair and expression.
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