AMLO says he probably won’t meet young people from Ayotzinapa and that it would “pain him”

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradorrecognized this Tuesday the possibility of not resolving during his mandate, which ends on October 1st, the case of the 43 missing students in Iguala (south of the state of Guerrero) and that “it would hurt“I didn’t find his whereabouts, although he assured me that”There is still time”.

“(He Ayotzinapa case) would be a pending issue that would harm me if I didn’t resolve it“, he was sincere, although he emphasized that”We still have time and we are fine”.

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This was expressed in an interview with Canal Red, the YouTube platform for Pablo Iglesiasformer party leader He can and former second vice president of Spainone of the few offered by the president to international media throughout his six-year term.

The case of young people from the rural school of Ayotzinapadisappeared on September 26, 2014, is one of López Obrador’s biggest issues, which he promised to resolve during the campaign that led him to win the 2018 elections.

O Truth Commission of the Government recognized in 2022 that the event was a “state crime” in which authorities from all levels of Government participated, including the Army, in complicity with organized crime.

López Obrador stressed that, during his tenure as head of state, “the search didn’t stop”For the missing students and“has already been punished” to the participants.

“It was a mess. When they say it was a state matter, yes it was, but not because the state ordered his disappearance, but because the state covered it up”, he stated.

This strategy, called “historical truth” by the government of the former president Enrique Peña grandson (2012-2018) and already discredited, pointed out that the students were detained by the police of the municipality of Equal towho handed them over to criminals who murdered them and burned them in a garbage dump.

For this reason, “It became more difficult and painful“for families to manage the tragedy, which became moresusceptible to political manipulation”.

Furthermore, he criticized the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR): “This institute, which I don’t trust at all, because they are very prejudiced and right-wing. They are at the service of oligarchies and right-wing governments”.

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Within the scope of this organization, in 2015, the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) for the Ayotzinapa case, responsible for clarifying the tragedy and preparing reports with the collaboration of the authorities.

In 2023, López Obrador guaranteed that the Army had handed over all information related to the case, but to the GIEI It was an obstruction of the Armed forces to avoid investigation into the role they played in the disappearance.

Therefore, the organization completed its task with the presentation of the sixth and final report in July last year, in which it harshly criticized the lack of collaboration on the part of the military authorities.

Source: Elcomercio

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