CD. VICTORIA, TAMAULIPAS, JANUARY 4, 2022.- In rejection of the changes in the Technical and Academic Secretariats by the Director of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics, a group of joints influenced by people outside the institution attacked the Director Flaviano Benavides González and three collaborators.
In view of the violent events recorded at the UAT campus located on the Victoria-El Mante highway, ahead of the railway crossing, the intervention of the State Police was requested, which came to bring order.
Likewise, ambulances from the Red Cross attended when three people appeared as injured, but these had already been transferred in private cars to hospitals to receive medical attention.
At the head of the dissatisfied group, Issac Montemayor was pointed out, who is accused of trying to seize the FMVZ Directorate with a group of followers, without achieving his objective.
This is the son of Jesús Montemayor Cadena, who worked as Administrative Coordinator and was in the group of those dismissed.
The rebel group is identified as part of a line of officials who obeyed the interests of the former Secretary of Administration of the UAT, Hugo Guerra García, first cousin of former Governor Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca.
With the intervention of the State Police, the situation calmed down and order returned to the institution.
The Director of the campus, Flaviano Benavides González, went to the State Attorney General’s Office to give his statement on the violent acts in which he was the victim.
The UAT Faculty of Veteran Medicine and Zootechnics is one of the oldest campuses on the UAT Campus in Victoria, with more than 60 years of operation.
For decades it was one of the best veterinary schools in the country, as it was ranked number three, after UNAM and the University of Veracruz.
Hundreds of young people from the predominantly cattle-raising states of the country such as Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sinaloa, Durango, San Luis Potosí and Nuevo León, among others, attended its classrooms to study.
It also received students from the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Panama, Costa Rica, Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia among other nations.
Unfortunately, the cheerleading of the eighties and nineties of the last century first scared away excellent teachers and little by little the quality of education declined, which ended up reducing the arrival of hundreds of students from other regions of the country and of the world.
The attempts to turn the campus into “loot” for external groups, pseudo-university and joints, has led to sterile lawsuits like the current one that damage the name of what was once the glory of the UAT in Ciudad Vitoria.
With the gradual elimination of these cells, it is hoped and confident that the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics can return to the path of academia, research and extension.