Ayotzinapa, the search for truth and justice continues
The night of September 26-27 marks eleven years since dozens of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College, located in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, were ambushed by uniformed police officers. The toll: 43 young people disappeared, six were killed, and 25 were wounded. The students were on their way to protest, as they do every year, the massacre of October 2, 1968, in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, where hundreds of students were gunned down. They belong to the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College, a socialist and assembly-based movement that considers itself the heir to the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Eleven years after the disappearance of the students, the families are redoubling their demands to the Mexican Army to hand over 800 pages with key information and fundamental evidence that will allow progress in the investigation.
In 2014, the government of Enrique Peña Nieto attempted to close the case by accusing “corrupt police officers” The Iguala authorities claimed to have arrested the 43 students and handed them over to organized crime, which allegedly killed and incinerated them at the Cocula landfill, mistaking them for members of a rival cartel. An investigation by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), in which specialists from the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) actively participated, refuted the official conclusions with solid scientific evidence, demonstrating the impossibility of the 43 students' bodies having been burned in Cocula.
