CNTE protests threaten the 2026 World Cup in Mexico City
The union’s dissident wing is demanding a 100% salary raise and threatened mass World Cup protests unless the government responds.
- On Tuesday, protesting teachers toppled three five-meter-high statues of World Cup football players on Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, closing roads and jamming traffic while demanding labour reforms.
- The CNTE is demanding a 100% salary raise and opposes pension reforms, having rejected a nine percent raise previously agreed upon by official union leadership.
- Protesters toppled statues representing Belgium, France, and Spain, though the mannequin wearing the Mexican kit remained standing; red graffiti read, "If there isn't a solution, the ball won't roll."
- President Claudia Sheinbaum called the protest peaceful on Tuesday, while a government statement requested dialogue; protesters questioned her stance regarding the damage to statues.
- The CNTE continues to protest following a Monday clash where police used tear-gas near the Zocalo plaza, threatening mass demonstrations at the World Cup opening on June 11.
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Anti-World Cup demonstrations hit host city days before tournament starts
Anti-World Cup demonstrations have hit Mexico City just days before the tournament gets underway.Demonstrators from Mexico's CNTE teachers' union have torn down giant football sculptures in the capital to voice their anger at the competition.The plastic figures, standing at five metres tall and installed along the tree-lined Paseo de la Reforma avenue to mark the tournament, were dragged to the ground using ropes before being defaced with spray …
A group of protesters broke into the Ministry of Education in Mexico City on Wednesday, using streetlights as rams, during a new day of demonstrations before the World Cup.
»If there is no solution, the ball will not roll«: the protests of the teachers in the Mexican capital are intensifying. The union threatens with mass demonstrations at the opening of the World Cup.
A demonstration in the heart of the capital ended in acts of vandalism to three giant structures of footballers, located on Paseo de la Reforma; the figures were removed by the company Zion, in the early morning of June 3, 2026, while you slept. The sculptures of footballers, between 6 and 8 meters high, were shot down on the sidewalk with damage and without the sports uniforms they carried. "We very much regret that there is this kind of violen…
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