US EditionProtesters in Mexico ram gates of military base to protest 43 students who disappeared
- On September 26, 2025, crowds protested in Mexico City chanting 'truth and justice' on the 11th anniversary of 43 students' disappearance.
- The students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College vanished in 2014 after being abducted in Iguala, where police colluded with a heroin-trafficking cartel and officials.
- Despite over a hundred arrests including former Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam, who is on trial for torture and disappearance, no one has been convicted and some suspects were freed.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum reaffirmed commitment to uncover truth and justice, pressing for extraditions of fugitives like investigator Tomás Zerón, who hides in Israel.
- The case, declared a state crime since 2022, remains unresolved with families demanding documents and clarity amid ongoing investigations and symbolic protests across Mexico.
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On the 11th anniversary of the disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) urged the Mexican State to redouble its efforts to determine the whereabouts of the young people, because, it stressed, the obligations of search, truth and justice persist.
The Killeen Daily Herald
Protesters demand answers 11 years after Mexican students vanished
Eleven years after her son vanished, Delfina de la Cruz vented frustration at the unsolved disappearances of 43 Mexican students who were allegedly kidnapped by drug traffickers while authorities turned a blind eye.
President Claudia Sheinbaum promised new lines of investigation to clarify the case, recognized as a state crime.
Associated Press News
Families of Mexico's 43 disappeared students demand truth and justice 11 years later
The words “truth and justice” rang out from crowds of protesters flooding the streets of Mexico City on Friday, just as it has every Sept. 26 since the disappearance of 43 Mexican students that shook the country.
“Truth and Justice” this Friday morning, Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum responded by referring to the “compromise” that her government assumes in the case of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa who disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero, between September 26 and 27, 2014. Eleven years after one of the tragedies that have most shocked and horrified Mexican society, the case continues with the same unresolved questions.
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