▲ March on Paseo de la Reforma as part of the 136th National Day demanding the presentation of the 43 missing normal students.Photo María Luisa Severiano
Sergio Ocampo and Ángeles Cruz
Correspondent and Reporter
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, January 27, 2026, p. 11
“A mother never forgets her son and I will continue looking for mine, no matter what, shouting in the streets until the government gives us an answer,” said Metodia Carrillo, mother of Luis Ángel Abarca, one of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa rural normal school who disappeared on September 26, 2014.
The parents of the normalistas maintain the demand for truth and justice, and to achieve that it is essential that the federal government open the Army archives and heed the recommendations of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), said Isidoro Vicario, member of the legal representation of the relatives of the normalistas.
Yesterday the 136th National Day was held to demand the presentation of the students. Fathers and mothers, accompanied by students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School and other civil organizations, carried out a march in Mexico City.
Also in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, dozens of students and members of groups of relatives of missing persons held a rally in which they reproached the federal government for the lack of results in the investigations.
At the mobilization held at the Las Banderas monument, at the Antimonumento a los 43, on Lázaro Cárdenas Avenue, the speakers recalled that former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised that he would resolve the case in 30 minutes. “Six years of his government passed and he did not resolve anything; on the contrary, he covered up the true causes of the disappearance of the comrades in Iguala, on the night of September 26 and early morning of September 27, 2014.”
Violence that enslaves
One of the victims’ relatives demanded: “there should no longer be missing people in Mexico, we are experiencing a genocide; there are hundreds of groups of missing people; the federal government does not like to say how many there are.”
This country “is no longer free, it is enslaved by violence, a clear example is the 11 people murdered in Guanajuato, society has to raise its voice,” he stressed.
In Mexico City, Isidoro Vicario commented that they are waiting for information from President Claudia Sheinbaum about the progress on the commitments she made last December. Mainly about the line of investigation to track the activity of the normalistas’ cell phones, because they were active after their disappearance.
Also, about the arrangements that would be made for the return of the members of the GIEI. This is important because “what little or much was known was thanks to the GIEI,” he stated.
Sheinbaum offered a new meeting in the first or second week of February and “we hope he will give clear answers,” he said.
