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Mexico’s Government Accepts the Demands of Student Protesters

Mexico's government has accepted all the demands of student protesters at the National Polytechnic Institute, or IPN, a public university in the capital, in a bid to prevent the movement from spreading to other higher education institutions.

On Sept. 22, students at the IPN's Superior School of Engineering and Architecture halted activities to protest new internal regulations that they said lowered the institution's academic and professional level.

The movement quickly grew and seemed on the verge of expanding to all of the country's public universities.

Mexico's government secretary, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, received a list . . .

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