May 21, 1999

Students Continue Strike Over Tuition at Mexican University

By RHONA STATLAND DE LOPEZ

Striking students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico staged a march through the streets of the capital last week to protest the rector's refusal to discuss demands that the institution rescind its first tuition increase in 50 years.

Tension has grown since protesting students shut down Mexico's largest university on April 20. Rector Francisco Barnes de Castro has insisted that he will not repeal

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