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By MARC LIFSHER
El Paso Bureau
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -
Militant agriculture students, an-
gered by the Mexican government's
refusal to keep a budget agreement,
Wednesday took the school director
and 16 million insects hostage and
threatened to turn off the insects'
life support systems unless their de-
mands were met.
About 1,500 students seized the
lffermanos Escobar Superior Agri-
,uture School, the nearby Center
for Reproduction of Beneficial In-
sects and two other government of-
fices Tuesday and Wednesday.
The students ended the fed-sos ($860,000) to 222 million pesos
($4.8 million), supply the school
with new vehicles, equipment and
experimental stations and convert
the private institution to a federal
university.
The students, negotiating by
phone with federal Agriculture
Ministry officials, threatened to
turn off refrigeration and life-sup-
port systems at the insect center.
The 15 million insects are predators
that are released to prey on pests
that attack' the Juarez Valley's rich
cotton crop.
A group of Juarez Valley farmers
met with the students Wednesday
afternoon and pleaded with them to
not kill the insects, which can pre-'My family is allowed to visit me, but I am not
allowed to leave. It's hard to predict when this
il/ end.'
School director DelgadoNo time limit has been set for the
negotiations, which are being hin-
dered by the unavailability of top
agricultural officials.
School director Rigoberto Delgado
Perez said Agriculture Secretary
Fransico Menino Rabajo was on an
inspection tour of the State of Chia-
pas,, and Sub-Secretary Avelardo
Amaya Brondo, with whom the stu-
dents signed a March 19 agreement,was at a conference in Italy.
Delgado said in a telephone inter-
view that no violence was used in
the takeover, and Juarez Mayor
Jose Reyes Estrada ordered police to
stay away from the campus and
other buildings the students held.
Another assistant agriculture sc-
retary Wednesday offered to in-
crease the school's budget by 26 mil-
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Turque, Bill. [Clipping: Gays air grievances to council], clipping, May 13, 1982; Dallas, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1787460/m1/4/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.