Dad and mom of lacking Mexican college students slam authorities missteps By Reuters

By Kylie Madry

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Dad and mom of 43 college students who went lacking in 2014 in Mexico known as on President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to maintain his phrase Monday as 1000’s joined them in a parade, criticizing blunders by a authorities that promised to punish these accountable.

The protest by way of the streets of the capital fell on the eighth anniversary of the scholars’ disappearance. Final month, the mother and father mentioned that they had a glimmer of hope within the case after Jesus Murillo Karam, the nation’s former high prosecutor, was arrested in relation to the case.

However after Murillo, who stays imprisoned, was granted a short lived suspension of his trial, and after virtually two dozen arrest warrants for different suspects had been cancelled, the scholars’ mother and father say they really feel like they’re being performed with.

“Honestly, it appears like they’re simply mocking us,” mentioned Blanca Nava, mom of one of many lacking college students. “Mr. President, we would like the reality.”

Emiliano Navarrete, father of one other lacking college students, mentioned, “The federal government is at fault. If the president promised to deal with this case… perhaps it was only a publicity stunt. Perhaps it was so folks would belief him.”

In August, Mexico’s high human rights official introduced the findings of an investigation into the incident, which concerned pupil lecturers from the Ayotzinapa Rural Lecturers Faculty, and known as it “a state crime.”

The report mentioned the preliminary investigation into the incident led by Murillo, dubbed the “historic reality,” was riddled with errors and that each one ranges of presidency had been concerned within the boys’ disappearance and a subsequent cover-up.

The 43 college students had been on their strategy to Mexico Metropolis from the Pacific state of Guerrero after they disappeared. Solely three our bodies have been discovered.

Final week, an unredacted model of the August report was printed in Mexican newspaper Reforma, naming alleged officers concerned and saying the our bodies of the kidnapped college students had been taken to a army base.

Since then, protestors, which embrace present college students at Ayotzinapa, have taken a harsher tone. Final week, protestors broke down the doorway to a army base in Mexico Metropolis earlier than throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at troopers.

“It is a method of placing stress on them, telling them we’re uninterested in getting the run-around,” mentioned Alexander Salazar, a pupil and protest chief at Ayotzinapa.