1996-10-24 Local Press - What's in a Name?
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What's in a Name?
In a luncheon with President Zedillo, the Federation of Mexican Private Higher Education Institutions (FIMPES) asked the President to take the name "public" out of the Secretariat of Public Education. According to FIMPES President Enrique Cardenas Sanchez, "there shouldn’t be distinctions between public and private universities... the agency should simply be called the Secretariat of Education, since its work is directed at all education in the county, and that would open more doors of cooperation between institutions." (La Jornada, 18 October).
"Atrocious" human Rights Record in Mexico
Teresa Jardi, the director of Human Rights Studies at the Ibero-American University, noted that Mexico's "atrocious human rights situation" is illustrated by the fact that: on average, each day one cadaver appears with a bullet through the head; six of every ten crimes reported in Mexico City involve the participation of police or ex-police officers; and the law of Public Security is juridically similar to that of a "dictatorship". (La Jornada, 22 October).