Mass Firings at a University in Mexico Could Disrupt Its U.S. Ties

On the evening of January 17, Monica Cruz, an editor at La Catarina, the student newspaper here at the University of the Americas-Puebla, 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 reputation as an independent voice during its six-year

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