“How not to be angry if information comes out three years later that should have been delivered at the time? How not to be angry if at the time that we knew that it was not moving due to lack of information, the parents in the commission asked for it? How not to be angry if we don’t know anything about our children? I am not talking about past institutions and past commanders, I am talking about these commanders who promised us to reach the truth, these commanders who played with us, that all they wanted was photography, ”he accused.
María Elena Guerrero claimed that three years into the López Obrador government, there are still no great advances in the investigation.
“We never imagined that three years into this new government we would not have information on the whereabouts of our children. But we do recognize an advance to know the truth and that justice is done, ”he said.
Cristina Bautista accused that the Army continues to be an obstacle to progress in the investigations, for which she asked President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to resume the meetings that were suspended since last September.
For his part, the lawyer for the parents of the normalistas, Vidulfo Rosales, stated that there is outrage at the “murky” investigation process and because the manipulation of the Cocula dump was intended to hide what happened on the night of the 26th and early morning of the 27th. September 2014.
“The parents had confidence in the Armed Forces, we thought they could contribute to clarifying the facts. It was us, several times we met with soldiers, we thought that they could contribute… What we realize is a dirty act, a dirty game by the Armed Forces that has not contributed anything to the truth, with a counterinsurgent vision that does not had the purpose of clarifying these facts, “he said.
He said that since it has become clear that the so-called historical truth is a setup, they ask that the whereabouts of the students be privileged and that the investigation announced by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador against the sailors involved be extended to the entire chain of command.
