Mexican peasants halt cops' attack
Mexican riot police in the central square of Tepatepec, a rural town in northern Mexico. Townspeople overpowered the 60 cops as they conducted an early morning raid on an occupation by students of a local teachers college. The cops were paraded through the town, and then released after most of the 150 students who had been arrested were freed. The students, who are the offspring of peasants in the area, are demanding an increase in funding for the school.
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