1999 UNAM strike In January 1999, Francisco Barnés de Castro, then rector of the UNAM, announced his intention to raise tuition. Attempts to raise tuition since 1948 had failed twice before, most recently in the late 1980s under Rector Jorge Carpizo MacGregor. Barnés proposed a number of reforms, including a tuition raise from about 0.02 dollars to about 150 dollars per academic year. Barnés promised the additional 48 million dollars the university would receive from the tuition increase would be used to fund more research and increase the quality of its facilities; the proposal also included a plan for tuition remission for students
Club Universidad Nacional Until this year. Los Pumas De La UNAM beat Guadalajara 3-1 in a away match in the copa mx and beat them 2-1 in a away match. Ending the maldition 36 years later. In fact, most people have started calling the UNAM vs. Guadalajara a clasico. On October 6 of 2018, Pumas faced Guadalajara in the Liga MX. After winning against them in the Copa MX a week and a half earlier, they were determined to repeat the outcome. Guadalajara quickly took the lead, Isaác Brizuela scoring the first goal of the game. Though Guadalajara had little time to celebrate,