A day of fighting
The fathers and mothers of normalistas, carrying the faces and names of their children as banners, led the march that started at 4:20 p.m. from the Angel of Independence to the Zócalo of Mexico City.
On their way down Paseo de la Reforma, they made a roll call with the names of each of the disappeared normalistas upon reaching the anti-monument at 43. Behind them, students from the Isidro Burgos Normal School raised their voices as they chanted protests for his missing companions. “Ayotzi is not for sale, Ayotzi is not given, because he has students with a lot of dignity!” shouted the young people who demonstrated in their uniforms.
Images of the former president, Enrique Peña Nieto, as well as of Jesús Murillo Karám, former prosecutor and author of ‘the historical truth’, in addition to Omar García Harfuch, current secretary of Citizen Security in the capital and who was Commissioner of the Federal Police in Guerrero, They were pasted on urban furniture and fences with legends such as “it was the Army” and “neither forgive nor forget.”
Civil associations, the National Human Rights Commission and the CDMX Human Rights Commission as well as representatives of the capital government accompanied the mobilization, while elements of the Citizen Security Secretariat (SSC) remained in the surrounding streets.
“Because they were taken away alive, we want them alive,” shout those attending the mobilization, the same claim that the young people have disappeared for eight years.
