Thousands Protest Ahead of Mexican President's Report on Missing Students
Parents of the missing Ayotzinapa trainees led the march as President Claudia Sheinbaum prepared a progress report on the case.
- On Saturday, thousands of protesters gathered in Mexico City carrying symbolic coffins to demand answers about 43 trainee teachers from Ayotzinapa who disappeared 12 years ago.
- Local police stopped the students in the town of Iguala in 2014, an incident now part of a broader crisis where more than 134,000 people are listed as disappeared in Mexico.
- Estanislao Mendoza, a parent of one of the 43, told AFP, "Another year of strain, of exhaustion, of hopelessness," as families chanted, "Because they were taken alive, we want them back alive."
- President Claudia Sheinbaum is expected to present a report on Monday following an exhaustive review of evidence by the attorney general's office.
- Although a former governor was arrested in August for deleting security videos, independent human rights experts reject the government's official conclusions, citing the case as a stain on Mexico's reputation.
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12 Years On, Families Demand Justice for 43 Missing Mexican Student Teachers
Families of 43 missing student teachers marched through Mexico City, demanding truth and justice 12 years after their disappearance in the Ayotzinapa case. The students vanished in September 2014, and families continue to seek answers about what happened to their children.
In the act, the families made the personal cost of the search visible: they recalled that eight fathers and mothers have died during this period without knowing the whereabouts of their children and denounced the deterioration in the health of the survivors due to chronic diseases.
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Correio da ManhãMexico City was the scene of a march led by the families of the 43 students who disappeared in 2014, a symbol of impunity and state involvement in cartel violence.
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