December 14, 2007

Dissension Racks Elite Mexican University

By MONICA CAMPBELL

U.S. accreditation and support at risk; 'loyalty oath' imposed

On the evening of January 17, Mónica Cruz, an editor at La Catarina, the student newspaper at the University of the Americas-Puebla here, scrambled to collect her personal belongings. A few steps away, padlocks in hand, campus security guards and administrators stood ready to shutter the newspaper.

They were under order of the university's administration to block publication of La Catarina, which had gained a

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