Students from the Ayotzinapa rural teacher’s school disappeared on September 26, 2014. According to the controversial version of the Enrique Peña Nieto government, called the “historical truth,” corrupt policemen detained the students and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos cartel, which he murdered them and incinerated them in the Cocula garbage dump and threw the remains into the San Juan River. The relatives and the administration of López Obrador deny this version
The disappearance of the 43 Mexican students from Ayotzinapa was a “state crime” in which authorities at all levels were involved and there are no indications that they are alive, the Commission for Truth and Access to the Justice of the case.
“The disappearance of the 43 students from the Normal Isidro Burgos de Ayotzinapa on the night of September 26 to 27, 2014 constituted a State crime in which members of the Guerreros Unidos criminal group and agents from various institutions of the Mexican State participated,” he declared. Alejandro Encinas, Undersecretary for Human Rights of the Government, at a press conference.
The official presented the first preliminary conclusions of the commission, created in 2018 by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, on the case of the 43 students who disappeared in Guerrero, a state in southern Mexico.
The report is based on more than 41,000 documents that include transcripts of phone calls, text messages, reports and dozens of videos of torture of detainees in the case.
The commission also concluded “that federal and state authorities of the highest level were omitted and negligent”, even accusing them of “altering facts and circumstances” to establish a conclusion “alien to the truth”.
“Their actions, omissions and participation allowed the disappearance and execution of the students, as well as the murder of six other people,” Encinas said of the authorities, including members of the Army and local police.
The official also acknowledged that “there is no indication” that any of the students are alive, and that they “have never been together” since they were separated at the Iguala bus station that night.
Students from the Ayotzinapa rural teachers’ school disappeared on September 26, 2014. That night they were traveling to Mexico City to participate in a demonstration for October 2.
According to the controversial version of the government of Enrique Peña Nieto, called “historical truth”, corrupt police officers arrested the students and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos cartel, which murdered and incinerated them in the Cocula garbage dump and threw the remains into the San Juan River. .
The López Obrador administration has denied this “truth”, agreeing with relatives and with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and its Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), which pointed out that the bodies could not be burned in that place. .
Only the remains of three students of the 43 missing have been identified to date. The Truth Commission urges to continue the search and identification of remains.
With information from BBC World
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