Sergio Ocampo and Hector Briseno
Correspondents
The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, September 17, 2024, p. 17
Students, teachers and workers from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College in Ayotzinapa participated in a parade organized by the Morena municipality of Tixtla, Guerrero, on the occasion of the 214th anniversary of the beginning of the War of Independence, within the framework of the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students from the normalistas in the municipality of Iguala.
Following the contingent from the Ayotzinapa normal school, hundreds of students from the normal schools affiliated with the Federation of Socialist Peasant Students of Mexico participated, marching through the streets of Tixtla, birthplace of Vicente Guerrero, consummator of Independence.
During the almost hour-long journey, the students chanted “Shoulder to shoulder, hand to hand, Ayotzi… Ayotzi is all of us!” and They want to eliminate the rural teachers’ colleges, but we will defend them with struggle and blood!
Above all, they demanded the presentation of the 43 students who disappeared in September 2014.
Although the action plan agreed upon by the Ayotzinapa teachers’ college and the Committee of Mothers and Fathers of the 43 formally begins next Wednesday, students have been demonstrating in Chilpancingo for more than a week.
The protests began on September 7, when students from Ayotzinapa, friends and family of the teacher training student Yanqui Khotan Gómez Peralta demonstrated on the bypass that goes from Chilpancingo to Tixtla, where the young man was shot to death on March 7, while he was trying to pick up teacher training students from other schools in the country.
On September 12, a commission from the Committee of Mothers and Fathers of the 43 met with Governor Evelyn Salgado Pineda at Casa Guerrero, the residence of the state Executive.
Breaking the silence
The president promised that a campaign would be launched this Monday to break the pacts of silence
which will initially consist of the deployment of tarpaulins and the broadcasting of radio spots to request information on the whereabouts of the missing students and to offer a reward.
As part of this initiative, billboards were installed on the Autopista del Sol, near Chilpancingo and on the streets of the capital of Guerrero, offering 10 million pesos to anyone who provides information. truthful and useful
concerning the whereabouts of the 43 Ayotzinapa students who disappeared between September 26 and 27, 2014.
In the spectaculars it was settled: We ask for your help in the search for our children. If you have any relevant information, please call 7571192006. Your report will be anonymous and will help provide relief to 43 families who suffer in uncertainty. Your help is essential to make us heard.
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