Strike and Struggle : Radical students wage a war they've already lost.(strike of university students continues in Mexico)(Brief Article)

From: Newsweek International | Date: September 13, 1999| Author: Zarembo, Alan; Bierma, Paige | Copyright information

Until recently, 29-year-old Alejandro (El Mosh) Echevarria was known around the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) mostly for his dreadlocks and rants against capitalism. In these days of Mexico's free-market economy, it might seem easy to dismiss him as an anachronism. But now Echevarria and other radicals are the government's biggest obstacle to ending a four-month-old student strike at UNAM, one of the largest universities in the Western Hemisphere. "T...

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