BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR: At Latin America's largest university, students haven't been to class since last April, as CNN Mexico City bureau chief, Harris Whitbeck, explains.</s>HARRIS WHITBECK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Striking students at Mexico's public university protested the latest violence in which dozens were injured and hundreds detained. "We cannot have a dialogue with the police in our classrooms, with hundreds of our comrades under arrest," he says. The students want their university, the largest in Latin America, to be public and free. They are protesting a proposed hike in tuition fees. (on camera): With the arrests, the conflict has reached a turning point. The authorities have shown they are willing to use force if needed, which complicates the search for a negotiated solution. (voice-over): University authorities now say the striking students are being manipulated by leftist guerrilla organizations. But to analysts, the student movement is fueled more by frustration than by ideology.</s>IGNACIO RODRIGUEZ REYNA, ANALYST: They know even that if they have some</s>WHITBECK: Frustration that so far has not been reduced by negotiations between students and authorities. Harris Whitbeck, CNN, Mexico City.
Students Protest Tuition Hike at Mexican University