Hooded men destroy establishments during the march through Ayotzinapa

10 years without the 43 from Ayotzinapa

The relatives continue to cry out for what really happened to be known, clinging more and more skeptically to the government’s promises of finding the young people, as well as the truth, but neither of those things has happened.

President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, who will take office on October 1, has said that she will continue with the investigations into the event that occurred during the mandate of then-president Enrique Peña, who was criticized for promoting an abrupt closure of the case and admitting the version of a key official. who claimed that the young people had been burned on a gigantic pyre.

That “historical truth”, as it was called at the time, was later disproved by extensive international research.

But President Andrés Manuel López Obrador also failed to keep his promise to clarify the case and has defended the armed forces, which – according to international investigations and lawyers of the victims’ parents – are identified as collaterally responsible for the events.

Investigations revealed that soldiers and sailors saw how the young people were attacked and forced to get off one of the buses where they were traveling.

The Army has denied that some of its members have participated directly and has claimed to have provided information for the investigations. Several soldiers linked to the case as alleged participants were released.

-With information from the Reuters agency.