On Sunday, police fired live ammunition at teachers in Oaxaca protesting educational reform that threatens their line of work, leaving at least 12 dead as countless others were wounded and arrested. This brutal police crackdown, allegedly ordered by the state governor, recalls the slayings of 43 student teachers in Iguala, Guerrero, in November 2014, after local police detained the protesters and turned them over to a drug gang, an ignominious tragedy the country is still reeling from.

— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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