The teachers’ movement and the repeal of the educational Reform in Mexico

This study focuses on the Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación en México (National Coordinator of Education Workers in Mexico, CNTE), which is the democratic current within the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (National Educational Workers Union, SNTE). The analysis posits that the CNTE is a counter-hegemonic entity that has been seeking the democratization of the teacher’s union, education, and society, since 1979. This study explores why this group opposed the neoliberal educational reform and why it continues to resist the repeal of said reform as proposed by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018–2024). The study also examines the CNTE’s Alternative Education Proposal, its demands for ongoing dialogue to address pedagogical, union, and community issues, and why the López Obrador government came to pose an unprecedented challenge for this organization even though it apparently repealed the neoliberal educational reform. Esta investigación se centra en el estudio de la Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación en México (CNTE), la corriente democrática dentro del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE). El análisis propone que la CNTE es una entidad contrahegemónica que, desde 1979 lucha por democratizar el sindicato, la enseñanza y la sociedad. Aquí se explora por qué la CNTE se opuso a la reforma educativa neoliberal y por qué se sigue oponiendo a la abrogación de la reforma propuesta por Andrés Manuel López Obrador, (AMLO 2018–2024). En este análisis se examina la Propuesta Alternativa de Educación de la CNTE, sus demandas de diálogo para tratar asuntos pedagógicos, gremiales, comunales y por qué el gobierno de AMLO es un desafío sin precedentes que, en apariencia, abrogó la reforma educativa neoliberal.

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Latin American Perspectives
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2026-08-18
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https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582x261479360
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Global Educational Policies and Reforms
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The teachers’ movement and the repeal of the educational Reform in Mexico

Emelio Betances
Latin American Perspectives
Global Educational Policies and Reforms
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The teachers’ movement and the repeal of the educational Reform in Mexico

Emelio Betances
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This study focuses on the Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación en México (National Coordinator of Education Workers in Mexico, CNTE), which is the democratic current within the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (National Educational Workers Union, SNTE). The analysis posits that the CNTE is a counter-hegemonic entity that has been seeking the democratization of the teacher’s union, education, and society, since 1979. This study explores why this group opposed the neoliberal educational reform and why it continues to resist the repeal of said reform as proposed by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018–2024). The study also examines the CNTE’s Alternative Education Proposal, its demands for ongoing dialogue to address pedagogical, union, and community issues, and why the López Obrador government came to pose an unprecedented challenge for this organization even though it apparently repealed the neoliberal educational reform. Esta investigación se centra en el estudio de la Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación en México (CNTE), la corriente democrática dentro del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE). El análisis propone que la CNTE es una entidad contrahegemónica que, desde 1979 lucha por democratizar el sindicato, la enseñanza y la sociedad. Aquí se explora por qué la CNTE se opuso a la reforma educativa neoliberal y por qué se sigue oponiendo a la abrogación de la reforma propuesta por Andrés Manuel López Obrador, (AMLO 2018–2024). En este análisis se examina la Propuesta Alternativa de Educación de la CNTE, sus demandas de diálogo para tratar asuntos pedagógicos, gremiales, comunales y por qué el gobierno de AMLO es un desafío sin precedentes que, en apariencia, abrogó la reforma educativa neoliberal.

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