Pedro Hernández, the general secretary of CNTE's Section 9, assured the press that the teachers' union has no relation to Generation Z and "our actions have nothing to do with what will happen on Saturday." In this regard, Sheinbaum Pardo asked the leaders of the different teachers' sections who are mobilizing, who tried to tear down fences to enter the National Palace, and who clashed with the Mexico City Police, to explain which side they are on. "So, it doesn't make sense, how can there be talks if there are negotiation tables, and even there has been a lot of support from teachers, students," he added. He insisted that the dissident teachers' union acts for political motives that seem similar to those of the opposition. "There are open work tables, recently the Secretary of Education, the Secretary of the Interior; Lety Ramírez from the Presidency, with the governor in Oaxaca, have been there." "Our struggle responds to demands that have not been resolved, not to political positions," the teacher explained. The demands of the dissident teachers' union include a larger budget for education and health, as well as the repeal of the 2013 Educational Reform and the 2007 ISSSTE Law. And President Claudia Sheinbaum once again referred to the demonstrations and blockades by the National Coordination of Education Workers (CNTE) in Mexico City. According to Hernández Morales, it is not possible for the 4T to use them to stop the Saturday's mobilizations, since "we are not asking for privileges, we are asking for labor justice." On social media, supporters of the teachers from the Coordination emphasized that during the CNTE's actions, now in a sit-in next to the Chamber of Deputies, they can wave communist, socialist, and pro-Palestine flags, they do not make propaganda for the Armed Forces and "they do not criminalize violent actions," as the official accounts of Generation Z do, where they have even called to "respect private property." LPO consulted with a Mexico City professor affiliated with Section 9 who confirmed that "we are not called by the rich or the government, neither of them." "What is the need for this demonstration," he reproached during the morning conference in the Treasury Hall. "We do not want violence," he added. "We have a responsibility to protect the National Palace, it is a historical monument, it is a symbol of our country." "There is a very high probability that these groups promoted by those who are demonstrating will arrive, or that infiltrators will come to provoke," he said. The opposition accuses the CNTE of helping Sheinbaum to sabotage the Generation Z march. The response was not long in coming. There have been tables in Chiapas, in all states. "You experienced last time what happened, they beat reporters, in short, violent actions that maybe were not from the teachers, but from some provocateurs, but what we seek is to avoid them," he said about the metal division in the Zócalo of CDMX, just days before the march called by the self-proclaimed Generation Z group. This Thursday was a day of fury for the streets of the country's capital.
