There are an average of 7.7 protests a day in Mexico City. Between January and May 1997 there were a total of 1,164 marches and demonstrations in the capital involving some 520,000 people. The leftist Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) led the tally with 295 marches, mandating a carbo-load diet for its supporters. On April 20, 1999, students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City went on strike to protest a decision to impose tuition fees. The protesters took control of most of the 40 schools and facilities of the university, which, with about 267,000 students, is the largest in Latin America. On the same day, 150,000 students from Mexico's National Polytechnic Institute staged their own little pep rally over unpaid wages to the school's 12,500 workers. Go, team, go.
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