Proceso Columbo González González lost his eye from a rubber bullet reportedly fired by CDMX riot police, while Octavio Romero was struck in the face with a metal rod.

This article by Luis Daniel Nava and Daniel Velázquez originally appeared in the June 3, 2026 edition of Sur Acapulco.

The teachers from the CETEG union who were injured on Monday in the Zócalo of Mexico City when members of the Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC) prevented them from entering, are from Guerrero, one from the Montaña region and the other from Chilpancingo, and both are promoters of the Fourth Transformation.

They are Proceso Columbo González González, originally from Quiahuitlatzala, municipality of Xalpatláhuac, and Octavio Romero Jerónimo, from Chilpancingo.

Columbo González, who reportedly lost an eye, is a primary school supervisor in the Metlatónoc area. In 2018, he was a member of the committees for the defense of the vote, brigades that promoted voting for Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

In 2024, he formed committees to defend the Fourth Transformation in municipalities of the Mountain region, to promote voting in favor of the now President Claudia Sheinbaum.

“He supported Claudia Sheinbaum. He went door to door inviting people to vote for change. He spared no resources or time. He created brigades in favor of Claudia Sheinbaum and promoted voting.”

“As a teacher in one of the poorest municipalities in the country, he has always instructed his students to overcome adversity,” said Jaime García Leyva, a researcher at the Autonomous University of Guerrero.

Octavio Romero, for his part, is the director of the 30 de Abril elementary school, in the Independencia neighborhood of the capital.

Both teachers are part of the advance of mobilizations of the State Coordinator of Education Workers of Guerrero (CETEG).

In Chilpancingo, Professor Araceli Fierro considered the repression by the federal president to be an abuse of authority and an act of repression by a government “supposedly left-wing”.

Columbo González supported Claudia Sheinbaum, who in her 2024 campaign promised to end the ISSSTE Law, a central demand fueling the teachers protests.

The President, she affirmed, is an authority who must address the demands of teachers regarding labour, retirement, and health.

“We are dying from work stress and lack of medical care, even though we are beneficiaries and the ISSSTE deducts a fee from our paychecks every two weeks. In Guerrero, there is no room for us in the emergency room, much less medication,” the teacher said.

The act of repression affected the teachers emotionally, but they will not give up, he assured.

In the context of the start of the national strike, in Chilpancingo, teachers from the CETEG union stormed the parking lot of the State Congress.

Congressman Jesús Urióstegui García, a member of the Morena party and close associate of Senator Félix Salgado Macedonio, reported that 12 vehicles were damaged. Five belonged to workers, five to congressmen, and two to construction workers building the library.

The Workers Party Condemns Attack Against Teachers in Mexico City

The state leadership of the Workers Party (PT) strongly condemned the attack against teachers in Mexico City and demanded a professional, thorough, prompt and expeditious investigation.

The party stated that those “who, exercising their right to free expression, marched and protested in Mexico City” should not be repressed.

In a press release, Victoriano Wences Real, on behalf of the State Governing Council, called “on the federal government and educational authorities to prevent acts of repression against social movements and the free expression of ideas. No one benefits from a repetition of violent acts, like those that occurred in 1968, which plunged an entire country into mourning prior to an international sporting event.”

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