▲ Accompanied by students from public schools and social groups, parents of the Ayotzinapa normalistas marched yesterday through the main streets of Iguala.Afp Photo
Sergio Ocampo Arista
Correspondent
The newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, September 19, 2024, p. 13
Chilpancingo, Gro., to the cry of ¡Be careful, be careful with Guerrero, state, guerrilla state!
some 3,000 people led by contingents of the Federation of Socialist Peasant Students of Mexico marched yesterday at noon in this city demanding the presentation alive of the 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa, who disappeared in Iguala in September 2014.
This mobilization marked the beginning of the action plan agreed upon at the National Popular Assembly, which includes marches in Chilpancingo, Tixtla, Iguala and Mexico City.
The demonstration on Wednesday, which took place on the main streets of the capital, was attended by the state’s public schools and various social organizations.
Throughout the day, messages on social media attempted to distort the struggle of the parents of the 43 missing students, by attempting to link the movement with the criminal group. The Squirrels, which controls the economy, transportation and, in general, all services in this municipality.
On Wednesday night, unknown individuals set fire to the anti-monument to the 43 located in this capital. Interviewed before the start of the march, the spokesman for the parents of the 43, Melitón Ortega, said that It has already caught fire three times; for us it is a symbol of resistance, of struggle, of truth, to try to clarify the case.
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He warned that until the students appear, the anti-monument will remain in that place. For us it was a provocation to our movement, which we have promoted through a peaceful struggle.
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In relation to the campaign started by the governor of Guerrero, Evelyn Salgado Pineda, who offered 10 million pesos to anyone who reports the disappearance of the normalistas, she commented: It is important to us; we do not rule out that there could be some relevant information
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Ortega considered that the most regrettable thing for the parents of the 43 is that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador He did not fulfill the commitment he made to them to clarify the truth; he did not succeed and left many questions open, which is why he is indebted to the Ayotzinapa case.
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Shortly after 4 p.m., the demonstration concluded with a rally at the point known as El Parador del Marqués, on the Mexico-Acapulco Autopista del Sol; the contingents returned to the school facilities, located in the municipality of Tixtla.
