Mexico: Teachers Union Members Damage Election Offices in Protest

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Members of a radical Mexican teachers union broke into or blockaded electoral offices in Oaxaca State on Monday amid threats to block Sunday’s midterm elections. Teachers burned or stole thousands of ballots, and Lorenzo Cordoba, head of the National Electoral Institute, said that teachers destroyed furnishings at two of the offices. The teachers, some of whom inherited their jobs from relatives, vigorously oppose a 2013 overhaul that requires competitive testing for teachers. The union says those tests do not measure teaching skills. Over the weekend, the government appeared to bow to their demands by suspending planned tests.