Mexico - Most roads were cleared on Saturday morning in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, after two weeks of road blocks by teachers who opposed the educational reform.

The members of the National Trade Union of Education Workers (SNTE) withdrew the road blocks that they had kept since June 27 to demand the annulment of the educational reform that they described as punitive and a violation of their rights.

However, the members of the so-called People's Municipal Assembly decided to keep the San Cristobal-Tuxtla Gutierrez road closed on the 46th kilometer.

"It is not a teachers' movement that is blocking but a people that are fed up by the structural reforms," one of the representatives explained.

Leaders of section seven of the National Trade Union of Education Workers said that the road blocks were removed in all eight points, including the international bridges of Talisman, Suchiate 2 and Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, which connect Mexico with Guatemala, as well as in the eastern and western entrances to the state capital.