Jared Laureles, Alma Muñoz and Emir Olivares
La Jornada newspaper
Friday, September 5, 2025, p. 6
The fathers of the 43 normalists of Ayotzinapa demonstrated “disappointed” after the meeting they held yesterday with President Claudia Sheinbaum, because – they said – there are no “substantial advances” in the investigations, after almost 11 years of the disappearance of the students.
In the morning, the chief of the Executive anticipated that they would give families advances on scientific analysis, including telephone calls, because “from our perspective and from the prosecutor’s own perspective (Mauricio Pazarán), they had not been carried out in depth during all these years.”
Until last night, the federal government had not given much information about the meeting in the National Palace and it is expected that this Friday will provide more details.
At the end of the fifth meeting between the president and the parents of the normalists, the families also considered that the authorities “dropped the lines of investigation” that they had followed during the past 10 years.
Isidoro Vicario, who is part of the legal team that accompanies the families, said that in the two hours that the meeting lasted there was no “novel” information, despite the expectations they had, after the previous two meetings were informed that a new scientific work team had been formed and lines of research related to telephone calls were mentioned.
Outside the National Palace, he indicated that, although the mothers and fathers of the normalists gave a vote of confidence to President Sheinbaum, “because she has shown willingness to advance in the investigations of the Ayotzinapa case”, this will must be translated into facts to clarify what happened with young people on the night of the 26th and early in the early September 27, 2014.
“There are no progress. That is what we were waiting for with fathers and mothers: at least they gave us a significant advance with this line that has to do with cell phone, from the new scientific work team that was formed. Then, the government was very duty today (yesterday) the government so that these investigations can advance,” said the lawyer.
Mario González, father of the student César Manuel, spoke of a setback. “We, the parents, also what we see is that, with the new technology, as advanced, they dropped the lines of research that we had for 10 years, such as the army,” he said.
The former officials are still protected
In turn, Emiliano Navarrete, father of the normalist José Ángel, reproached that “the State continues to protect the previous officials involved in the disappearance of our children.”
The families insisted that the intervention of telephone calls of the army on the transfer of 17 railings of railings on the outskirts of Iguala, as well as the information contained in the 800 folios that the institution has in its possession and that they consider fundamental for the case.
The lawyer Isidoro Vicario also pointed out that the Special Prosecutor’s Office of the Ayotzinapa case “has not been able to consolidate” his work team, although, President Sheinbaum said he would strengthen this instance.
