Thousands of people marched in Mexico over the setbacks in the Ayotzinapa case nine years later

Thousands of people marched this Tuesday in Mexico City on the ninth anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa remember the tiredness of young people’s families at a time that they consider a setback after years of small progress.

“It is categorically stated that the reason for the murder and disappearance of the young people is due to a dispute between criminal groups, that the students were infiltrated by criminal groups, these are statements closer to the historical truth than new investigations.“, he told the media Vidulfo Rosaleslawyer for the students’ parents.

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On Monday, the young people’s parents accused the president, in a meeting with the Secretary of the Interior (Segob), of a cover-up by the Army, which did not provide all the information about the case, as also denounced in July by the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIIE).

Fathers and mothers of the 43 young people who disappeared from Ayotzinapa in September 2014 and students from the rural school protest in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 26, 2023. (Photo by Sáshenka Gutiérrez/EFE)

That day, Rosales told the media as he left the meeting that the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico is offering a similar narrative to the one called “historical truth” that the president’s government wanted to impose Enrique Peña grandson (2012-2018), regarding the case of the missing students from Ayotzinapa in 2014.

This Tuesday, the lawyer explained that the statement presented to the parents on Monday and which will be presented to the media on Wednesday uses evidence that has already been rejected and does not advance the family’s main objective, which is to know what happened. and know the whereabouts of young people.

On September 20th, parents met with the president Andrés Manuel López Obradorto whom they alleged that the Army did not deliver relevant documents that could help them find out what happened that night of September 26, 2014, but the president then insisted that all the information is already in the hands of the Attorney General of the Republic.

Fathers and mothers of the 43 young people who disappeared from Ayotzinapa in September 2014 and students from the rural school protest in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 26, 2023. (Photo by Sáshenka Gutiérrez/EFE)

“It’s the (information) we have until now, we no longer have it, if they consider that there is information that we are hiding, I tell them: it’s not true. So clear“, replied the president this Tuesday in his usual morning press conference.

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The march, the most massive in recent years, took place from the emblematic Angel of Independence until the Plinth -Where is he National Palacepresident’s residence – peacefully although there was little damage to street furniture.

Fathers and mothers of the 43 young people who disappeared from Ayotzinapa in September 2014 and students from the rural school protest in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 26, 2023. (Photo by Sáshenka Gutiérrez/EFE)

The parents, visibly exhausted after a week of protests in the Mexican capital and nine years of struggle, marched at the front of the mobilization and stood in front of the anti-monument of the 43 students, located on Paseo de la Reforma, where they held a count as a reminder of the long absence from their children.

Upon arriving at the Zócalo, they held a rally where they recalled that their priority is to know the whereabouts of their children and demanded once again that the investigations be continued in a rigorous and serious manner, moving away from the historical truth, in addition to insisting on the need for Army disclose missing information.

Source: Elcomercio