these riots have gone off and os for more than a month. ch they went on before they voteds on the new rules. but the rules did pass. yeah. i think the rules passed because they re not satisfied with just growing a t backyard anymore. they want the more high-techsati jobs that are coming to mexico because of the north american free trade agreement. they want to be part of that game. so even though the specialan interests of the teachers union. remains very powerful and as you can see, very activist, a largen percentage of the mexican population backs the president on this one. v stossel: in america whenrcen teachers unions protest, they are noisy and disruptive. but in mexico, they take hostages. they shut the whole city down. yeah. i think that actually this backfired on them, particularly when they did it in mexico cityt and people couldn t get to the t airport and ahe lot of the bigg boulevards were closed because mexico city already has a bigevr traffic problem. stossel: why