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Students at Mexico’s Center for Research and Teaching in Economics, known as CIDE, a small but prestigious public university, have been protesting against their new director. As The World’s Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia reports from Mexico City, the protests are the latest example of an ongoing controversy surrounding government-funded academic research in Mexico.