Comite General de Huelga

The strike at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico). Latin America's largest university, with a third of a million students, was threatened with a tuition increase from the nominal two cents to US$150. Students shut down the school for an entire year, forming the ad hoc Comite General de Huelga, and held rallies and massive marches across the capital. In February of 2000, hundreds of police raided the school, breaking the strike.