The coordinator of the Benito Juárez Welfare Universities (UBBJ), Raquel Sosa Elízaga, was showered with complaints in the three-hour meeting she had with the students, but she did not change her position that the university headquarters will be in Ojitos de Agua and not in the header.
In a tense meeting that began at six in the afternoon and concluded at nine o’clock on Wednesday night in the auditorium of the City Hall, the young people exhibited in front of Sosa Elízaga banners where they expressed their demands.
“We want our school at the head”, “we demand freedom of expression”, read some of the slogans.
The students and teachers of this University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and Midwifery were summoned at five in the afternoon, but the federal official arrived an hour later.
This meeting of Sosa with the young people originated as a result of the fact that last Friday, October 21, they intercepted on the Tixtla-Chilapa highway the convoy headed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador who was told that he is already going for almost four years and they have not built their school but also that the headquarters stay in the head.
López Obrador attended to them and said that Sosa would be with them; He assured that the school building will remain in Tixtla.
The young people interpreted these words of the president that the construction of the building would be at the head.
“Indeed, the headquarters will be in Tixtla, Ojitos de Agua is in the municipality of Tixtla and is located eight minutes from here,” Sosa told the students who almost filled the Municipal Auditorium.
“That’s not true, it’s not eight minutes of travel, plus there’s no transportation,” a student’s voice was heard in the back rows.
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Sosa Elízaga did not listen to the claim. Along with the official were the mayor Moisés Antonio González Cabañas, the ejido commissioner of Ojitos de Agua, the coordinator of the University, Abel Alonso Hernández and some councilors of the Moreno city council.
During the acrimonious dialogue, Sosa asked the students not to create a conflict, not to shout and insult.
“There is no need to shout, I am here to talk with you but at this moment the option of the headquarters is Ojitos de Agua because we have already advanced the technical studies of the feasibility of the soil.”
One of the students told the coordinator of the UBBJ that in these almost four years that the government has not built the building there are several proposals for land to carry out the work.
“Here are two people who want to donate land to build the school in the municipal capital,” said the young woman.
The coordinator of the UBBJ told the students that these lands that they propose will be used to extend the headquarters by building two clinics.
One of the arguments presented by the students to reject the headquarters of their school in Ojitos de Agua is that in that community, 15 minutes from the capital, there is no public transport, internet, water and drainage.
“Most of us come from outside and if the headquarters of the school is outside Tixtla, our expenses multiply,” he said.
Sosa reminded young people that none of the country’s welfare universities have their headquarters in the municipal capitals.
“The instruction we have from the president is that our universities have their headquarters in the communities so that the students have contact with the peasants,” Sosa told the students.
The discussion heated up when Leobardo Alejandro Flores, who identified himself as the father of one of the university’s students, demanded that Sosa heed the president’s order and resolve the conflict.
The screams of the students resounded the Auditorium when Alejandro Flores proposed to Sosa the donation of four hectares of land for the school to be built.
“What we see is that here they want to make an imposition to see why they do not make a consultation among the students and that they say where they want the school to be built,” Alejandro Flores told Sosa, who listened with his head down.
Flores’ words provoked the cries of the young people again.
During the dialogue, complaints also rained down on former mayor Ericka Alcaraz Sosa, of the PRD, and the current mayor of Moreno, González Cabañas.
“The previous municipal authorities and those of today are also responsible for this conflict,” accused a father. González Cabañas raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Students have accused González Cabañas of disdaining the school by calling it a “duckling” or “pedorra” university.
During one of his several interventions, Sosa Elízaga recalled that the former mayors(Erika Alcaraz Sosa) promised to buy the land for the construction of the school in the capital but finally became frustrated because he did not raise all the money to acquire it in addition to the fact that it was detected that the property had legal problems.
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