2022 has been one of the worst years in the investigation of the 43 from Ayotzinapa: spokesperson

Rubicela Morelos Cruz

Correspondent

Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday December 31, 2022, p. 6

vcbThe year that ends has been one of the most difficult that the mothers and fathers of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa rural normal school, forcibly disappeared in September 2014, in Iguala, Guerrero, have had in the search for their children, said Melitón Ortega, spokesperson for the relatives, who accused that the federal government tried to close searching for their children.

He said that they have been looking for their student children for eight years and three months, without finding them until today; He specified that in 2022 “we have experienced the hardest compared to others, we are practically talking about an attempt to close the report that (the Undersecretary of the Interior, Alejandro) Encinas delivered last August, about the investigation he was carrying out. cape; and that gives us a lot of mistrust because there is not that disposition, that will to continue, in the search and in the investigation.

We see that the federal government’s position is to closesaid Melitón, uncle of Mauricio Ortega Valerio, one of the 43 missing normalistas.

He argued, interviewed in Cuernavaca, that the report of the Undersecretary of the Interior tried to justify that they had already finished looking for them and that there were no indications that the young people were alive, how to close this search case.

The spokesman reiterated that the position of the parents is that there is no scientific evidence that the boys are lifeless. He recalled that some elements on which the investigation was based, such as chats, were discarded by them.

“For us that is discarded (the chats), that is where the confrontation with the government comes from, because it is their report; and that is why we took great care so that the data was assessed through the experts; So today we live like this, we are left with that, and the government is left with that, with the Encinas report.

While parents say that if there is scientific proof, go ahead, we can say that the kids are no longer alive, but if there isn’t, then we have to continue; In the meetings with the government, this has been raised, that there are pending lines, and let’s continue in the search alive, and without life, of course, in the field that remains the same until todayOrtega said.

However, he assured that the search for his children is very slow, not as they wanted; although he insisted that they do not lose hope of finding them in the two years remaining in the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, because, they assured, they still have not forgotten that the current president promised to help them find them.