Mexican schools ‘reopen after mass closure’
Mexican schools which were forced to close due to threats from active drug cartels have reopened and lessons have resumed.
The education centres in Acapulco were closed after notorious drug gang the Zetas threatened to kill teachers if they did not hand over half of their earnings as protection payments, Fox News Latino reports.
Teachers who were affected by the violence and blackmail took to the streets to protest against the increasing levels of violence in the city and country-wide and to ask for peace.
Authorities agreed to deploy military detachments at schools and 90 per cent of Acapulco's educational institutions were open on Monday (October 3rd), according to both administrators and representatives of the teachers union.
Extra security cameras and guards have been put in place at schools in the worst-hit areas.
Children in at least 140 teaching centres were left without lessons as teachers deemed it too dangerous for schools to open.
