The differences with the federal government “are accentuated”: Vidulfo Rosales

Jessica Xanthomilla

Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, February 27, 2022, p. eleven

Seven years and five months after the disappearance of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa rural normal school, the lawyer for the victims’ relatives, Vidulfo Rosales, asserted that the case is bogged down, with little progress and differences with the federal government are accentuated.

Last year was the one in which there was less progress, both in search and in investigations, he said when participating in the march that the mothers and fathers of the disappeared normalistas carry out every month in Iguala, Guerrero, in September 2014.

Regarding the relationship with the federal government, after the statement by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who reports information that there are people dedicated to illicit activities infiltrated in this movement, Rosales mentioned that he the thesis that was part of the past government, hypotheses that had no support, that were never provenbut now they are taken up again and pose a line of criminalizing the rural normal and the parents’ movement.

The above, he added, has obviously caused inconvenience, that the relationship with the federal government cools down (and that) we find ourselves without further meetings with the President. He recalled that the last meeting they had with the chief executive was on September 24, 2021.

However, he pointed out that this year they have had two meetings with the Commission for Truth and Access to Justice for the Ayotzinapa case and they hope that in the coming weeks they will be presented with information by the special prosecutor for this matter, Omar Gómez.