Claudia, will the governors take it down a notch or two and take it easy?

By Nurit Martínez

The meeting was propitious, rectors and directors of public and private universities in the country gathered in an atmosphere of trust and camaraderie. Familiar faces with the team close to the virtual Morena candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, Claudia Sheinbaum, to talk about the needs and challenges in the coming years. But those faces hardened when one of the rectors asked: "that our candidate talks to the governors and, right now, that they take it easy with the universities".

Javier Saldaña, rector of the University of Guerrero, the most experienced at the moment within the association that groups the 201 directors of higher education institutions in the country, was in charge of raising an issue that has raised the voices of the rectors in public statements in recent months.

Morena governors and state legislatures have launched their torpedoes at different state university rectors. There are several attempts and means to make the institutions follow the path proposed by the Fourth Transformation, as is the case of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, which we have commented in this space, where the Morena government, Rubén Rocha, is pursuing the current rector, Jesús Madueña, with audits and judicial resources.