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Mexico and the world are now commemorating the three-year anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students from the Raul Isidro Burgos Ayotzinapa Teachers’ Training College.
The government’s official version says local police apprehended the 43 students on the night of September 26 and early hours of Sept. 27, 2014, and handed them over to a gang known as Guerreros Unidos.
teleSUR takes a look at the renewed movement for justice that has sprouted up across the country and the world, forging new bonds of solidarity on regional, binational, and international levels — commemorating the 43 and joining in the cry: "Alive they were taken, alive we want them back!"
'It Was the State': Unmasking the Official Ayotzinapa Narrative
Journalist John Gibler investigates the disappearance of the 43 students at Ayotzinapa and the strong links implicating both local and federal officials to the crime. READ MORE
New Study Debunks Mexico's Line on Ayotzinapa Students, Again
A new independent study is the latest forensic evidence to rebut the Mexican government’s claim that the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students were burned in a garbage dump, lending credence to claims by human rights groups that authorities have conspired to cover up the truth to conceal their own complicity. READ MORE
Mexico: Priority in Ayotzinapa Case Is Finding the Students
The Mexican government's attorney said Saturday that the government is prioritizing finding the 43 Ayotzinapa students that were forcibly disappeared, just days before the second anniversary of one of the country’s most important cases of human rights abuses. READ MORE
Defying Borders, Reclaiming Identity
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Fighting for the Disappeared in Argentina and Ayotzinapa
The mother of one of Mexico’s 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students Saturday visited Argentina’s internationally-renowned Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo to share experiences from their movements and commemorate decades of struggle. READ MORE
Plan Merida on Trial
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US Claims Mexico Policy Is Effective Despite Ayotzinapa Tragedy
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'Climate of Impunity' Threatens Justice for Ayotzinapa Families
During the closed-door meeting at a Guerrero school, Jarab hailed the fact that Mexico's attorney general's office was opening new lines of investigation. He also said a special monitoring mechanism dictated by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, or IACHR, would be installed soon to ensure the Mexican government is held accountable for its probe. READ MORE
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Relatives carry photos of some of the 43 missing students of the Ayotzinapa teachers' training college during a protest to mark the anniversary of their disappearance in Mexico City, Aug. 26, 2015. | Photo Reuters
title='Ayotzinapa has now become a symbolic case of Mexican government human rights abuses, extrajudicial murders and forced disappearances. Activists point to the most recent case in which federal police are accused of extrajudicial murder of 12 protesters in Nochixtlan, Oaxaca on July 19th, 2016. That case too has seen little advances.' width="798" height="449">
Ayotzinapa has now become a symbolic case of Mexican government human rights abuses, extrajudicial murders and forced disappearances. Activists point to the most recent case in which federal police are accused of extrajudicial murder of 12 protesters in Nochixtlan, Oaxaca on July 19th, 2016. That case too has seen little advances.
title='The families of the disappeared 43 and their legal representatives have had a series of meetings with officials from the Attorney General’s Office and Interior Ministry. Over the course of 22 months they have had meetings with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto as well as other cabinet officials and lower level-individuals. They fear the authorities are seeking to “pass the buck” amongst each other, without truly dedicating the resources in finding truth and justice in the case.' width="798" height="449">
The families of the disappeared 43 and their legal representatives have had a series of meetings with officials from the Attorney General’s Office and Interior Ministry. Over the course of 22 months they have had meetings with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto as well as other cabinet officials and lower level-individuals. They fear the authorities are seeking to “pass the buck” amongst each other, without truly dedicating the resources in finding truth and justice in the case.
title='The need for truth, justice and locating the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students continues to galvanize other social movement to express their solidarity as well as continue to issue demands on behalf of their own struggles.' width="798" height="449">
The need for truth, justice and locating the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students continues to galvanize other social movement to express their solidarity as well as continue to issue demands on behalf of their own struggles. | Photo EFE
title='Many major streets of many of Mexico’s major cities are marked by tags and graffiti demanding justice in the Ayotzinapa case. Although a team of independent experts of the Inter American Commission on Human Rights made headway in their own investigation into what happened and where the 43 students may be, the Mexican authorities denied renewing that team’s mandate and thus little advances in the investigation have occurred.' width="798" height="449">
Many major streets of many of Mexico’s major cities are marked by tags and graffiti demanding justice in the Ayotzinapa case. Although a team of independent experts of the Inter American Commission on Human Rights made headway in their own investigation into what happened and where the 43 students may be, the Mexican authorities denied renewing that team’s mandate and thus little advances in the investigation have occurred.
title='Over the course of these two years, some of the families have tattooed the names of their children to their bodies, almost all have a blown-up photo, pin or t-shirt of their disappeared son nearby everyday and they all declare that they will keep on marching, protesting and demanding justice until it is served.' width="798" height="449">
Over the course of these two years, some of the families have tattooed the names of their children to their bodies, almost all have a blown-up photo, pin or t-shirt of their disappeared son nearby everyday and they all declare that they will keep on marching, protesting and demanding justice until it is served.
title='It's been two years since police in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico attacked and disappeared 43 students from the Raul Isidro Burgos Ayotzinapa Teachers’ Training College. The families of the youth and their supporters once again took the main avenues in the Mexican capital to demand justice, truth and ultimately, the location of the students.' width="798" height="449">
It's been two years since police in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico attacked and disappeared 43 students from the Raul Isidro Burgos Ayotzinapa Teachers’ Training College. The families of the youth and their supporters once again took the main avenues in the Mexican capital to demand justice, truth and ultimately, the location of the students.
title='Many major streets of many of Mexico’s major cities are marked by tags and graffiti demanding justice in the Ayotzinapa case. Although a team of independent experts of the Inter American Commission on Human Rights made headway in their own investigation into what happened and where the 43 students may be, the Mexican authorities denied renewing that team’s mandate and thus little advances in the investigation have occurred.' width="798" height="449">
Many major streets of many of Mexico’s major cities are marked by tags and graffiti demanding justice in the Ayotzinapa case. Although a team of independent experts of the Inter American Commission on Human Rights made headway in their own investigation into what happened and where the 43 students may be, the Mexican authorities denied renewing that team’s mandate and thus little advances in the investigation have occurred.
title='Families of the 43 forcibly disappeared Ayotzinapa students protest outside the Attorney General's office in Mexico City, May 26, 2016.' width="798" height="449">
Families of the 43 forcibly disappeared Ayotzinapa students protest outside the Attorney General's office in Mexico City, May 26, 2016. | Photo EFE
title='Relatives hold up posters in support of 43 disappeared students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college during a rally in Mexico City, Feb. 19, 2015.' width="798" height="449">
Relatives hold up posters in support of 43 disappeared students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college during a rally in Mexico City, Feb. 19, 2015. | Photo Reuters
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