“I don’t know what fear he had that the entire march would reach the Zócalo, or what he intends to arrive tomorrow at his ‘Mañanera’ to say that there were no people,” said the father of the normalista Carlos Lorenzo Hernández, one of the 43 young people of Ayotzinapa, before the filters that were placed to advance to the first capital table.
On the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of the students from the Normal Rural Isidro Burgos, the fathers and mothers had to pass between fences that blocked their path to the capital’s Zócalo, just a few meters from reaching the main square of Mexico .
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The families of the normalistas made a last claim to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who had as one of his promises to resolve the Ayotzinapa Case and whose term ends this October 1, without the whereabouts of the students being clarified.
Carlos’s father accused the president of stopping the investigations in 2022, when the lines pointed to the participation of the Army in the disappearance.
“He who covers up or hinders investigations is also complicit in forced disappearance,” said Maximiliano Hernández Cruz.
“We signed a decree that did not matter, there are reports that show the participation of the Army,” said Hilda, who asked for the group of experts to return.
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Emiliano Navarrete Victoriano, father of José Ángel Navarrete González, addressed a direct complaint to the president, whom he pointed out to place himself “at the feet of the Army.”
“The right to truth and justice is above you, president of only six years. You placed yourself at the feet of the Army of which you are so proud, turning your back on us, the fathers and mothers.
“We will continue to demand truth at the same level from the new president, we are not going to take a step back,” he assured.
Collectives painted a turtle on the fences that guard the National Palace and wrote a message that was later set on fire as part of the protest dynamics.
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Each anniversary of the events, which occurred in the city of Iguala in the violent state of Guerrero, is a painful reminder of the attack on the more than 100 students of Ayotzinapa, who were traveling in several buses and were shot by police in collusion with criminals.
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 Nieto, who was criticized for promoting an abrupt closure of the case and admitting the version of an official. key that assured that the young people had been burned on a gigantic pyre.
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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.
Although a López Obrador official said two years ago that there was no indication that the young people were alive and declared the case a state crime, there are survivors who do not give up and continue to affirm that their companions are alive.
