Families from Ayotzinapa make pilgrimage to the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe to ask for justice and denounce impunity

Mexican families of the 43 students missing from Ayotzinapa and activists made a pilgrimage this Tuesday to the Basilica of Virgin of Guadalupe demand justice and denounce the impunity of the case despite the president’s promises, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Thousands of protesters marched during the ‘111th global action for Ayotzinapa’ through some of Mexico City’s main streets, where they carried a large red blanket with the word “Impunity” on it while shouting “they took them alive, we want them alive”.

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“So far there is hope that they will return, that the 43 companions will return with their families”, one of the march’s spokespeople said over a loudspeaker as participants carried photos of the missing.

Relatives and friends of the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa made a pilgrimage today to the Basilica of Guadalupe, in Mexico City (Mexico) | Photo: EFE/Isaac Esquivel

The march takes place after completing, on September 26, 9 years since the disappearance of 43 normalista students in the state of Guerrero, in the south of the country, in 2014, a case that remains unsolved.

The anniversary occurred amid tension with the Government, as families ask the Army to provide information that has not yet been sent to the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), but to the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, He defended the Armed Forces, which led to friction with activists.

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Upon arriving at the Basilica, the bishop Raúl Vera, Known for being a defender of human rights, he officiated a mass in which he asked people to “be courageous” and “not get tired of fighting”.

““These are people who are looking for a different Mexico, one of peace, not inequality,” he stated.

Mexican families of the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa and activists made a pilgrimage this Tuesday to the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe to demand justice and denounce impunity in the case despite promises from the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador | Photo: EFE/Isaac Esquivel

Resolving the Ayotzinapa case is one of the major tasks pending for President López Obrador, who acknowledged that it was one of his unfulfilled promises, despite defending the progress of the investigation.

The Government’s Truth Commission recognized last year that the incident was a “state crime” in which authorities from all levels of government participated, including the Army, in complicity with organized crime.

The controversy grew this year after the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) left the country after denouncing obstructions by the Armed Forces in the investigation due to the role played by the military.

Source: Elcomercio