Delfina de la Cruz confesses her frustration after eleven years without knowing about her son, one of the 43 students of the Mexican town of Ayotzinapa allegedly disappeared by drug traffickers in complicity with authorities.
The students disappeared on September 26, 2014 while traveling by buses, through the state of Guerrero (South), to participate in a mobilization in Mexico City.
“We are at first,” said the woman during a massive march this Friday in Mexico City, which commemorated the disappearance of the students of a school of teachers.
Although dozens of people have been prosecuted, the case is in impunity: only three students have been found, they are not convicted and the whereabouts of the rest of the young people are ignored.
“I want to see my son, (knowing) what happened, where he is, if he is no longer there,” added the woman, who headed the protest along with mothers of other victims.
Within the framework of the investigations, local police have been indicated to have detained them and then deliver them to drug traffickers.
A former Attorney General and several military have also been prosecuted, the latter for alleged omission.
Students’ relatives say that the responsibility of these uniformed goes beyond breaching their functions and accuse the army of hiding information.
On Thursday, a group of protesters demolished with a truck the door of a military unit in the Mexican capital, within the framework of another protest for the Ayotzinapa case.
This Friday’s mobilization was marked by multiple expressions of hopelessness.
Under the rain, the retired professor Jesús Gumaro, who added spontaneously to the march, maintains a banner that criticizes former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024) and his successor, Claudia Sheinbaum, for not “clarifying the crime.”
“We hoped that it would be clarified, but there is nothing like that,” says the 66 -year -old university professor.
López Obrador promoted a new investigation of the case, which denied the version of the previous government that young people had been incinerated and their ashes thrown into a river in the state of Guerrero (South).
Both inquiries agree that the young people were kidnapped and killed by the United Guerreros Cartel, colluded with municipal police.
Mexico accumulates more than 120,000 missing, most since 2006 when the government declared war to cartels with military participation.
