A New Rector Is Selected for Troubled Mexican University

Less than a week after the head of the strike-bound National Autonomous University of Mexico handed in his resignation last month, a new rector was chosen to replace him.

The governing board of Mexico's largest public university unanimously elected Juan Ramon de la Fuente Ramirez to succeed Francisco Barnes de Castro.

The university is seven months into an acrimonious strike by students angered over a proposal to raise tuition for the first time in 50 years, from the equivalent

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