▲ The most important thing is to find the whereabouts of the students, insists the President.Photo by Cristina Rodriguez
Emir Olivares, Laura Poy and Sergio Ocampo Arista
Reporters and correspondents
The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, August 3, 2024, p. 6
Yesterday, the search for clues that would lead to the whereabouts of the 43 Ayotzinapa students who disappeared in September 2014 ended at the 27th Infantry Battalion in the municipality of Iguala.
Only a small group of parents of the students from the normal school showed up at the site, as the relatives represented by the lawyer Vidulfo Rosales did not attend. The work began on July 31 and the results will be announced on August 27.
Last Wednesday, at the suggestion of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, headed by the Undersecretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration of the Ministry of the Interior, Arturo Medina, personnel from the Army and the National Guard, along with parents, began the search.
The work included the use of drones and machinery, and they also visited areas surrounding the city of Iguala.
We will never lie to parents.
of the normalistas, said López Obrador and called on the families to accept the progress of the investigations into the disappearance of the 43 young people.
In his morning press conference, the President confirmed his position that There is no evidence
to hold the Army responsible for the forced disappearance of the students: And if in these times, while we are still here or in the future, elements are found to judge those who have acted as armed forces, they will be judged.
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The president recalled that 17 soldiers are under criminal proceedings for the case – some in jail and others on parole – but he added that they are not being tried for the crime of forced disappearance, but for omission and for possible links to organized crime. He stressed that the most important thing is to find the whereabouts of the 43 missing students.
He also demanded that the Israeli government no longer protect the former head of the Federal Investigation Agency, Tomás Zerón, the mastermind behind the so-called historical truthaccused of torture in this case and a fugitive from justice, and requested information from the United States about asylum from Iguala’s rail judge, Ulises Bernabé. Both, he said, are key to knowing what happened to the young people.
