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Legislative groups from the Board of Political Coordination (Jucopo) agreed Tuesday to create a commission that will follow up on the Ayotzinapa case, especially on the last damning report issued by the independent foreign experts from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The commission will be comprised of eight experts and eight substitutes. The presidency will rotate between the three major parties of the Congress – according to the parliamentary regulations, said Political Coordination Board, or Jucopo, representative Cesar Camacho, from the governing party Institutional Revolutionary party (PRI).
“We want an exhaustive and efficient investigation of the facts, and we want to avoid impunity, so this would become one more agreement adopted unanimously that demonstrates the good will of all lawmakers,” he added.
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The move follows a United Nations call on Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to take action and follow up on recommendations made in the report criticizing how the PRI handled the investigation.
The report found that the state's version of events – that the students were all killed, incinerated and their remains thrown in a river by a local drug gang Guerreros Unidos (United Warriors) – was not viable and that officials failed to follow through on obvious lines of investigation.
On Monday, a state official from the Human Rights Office of the Ministry of Interior said that the Peña Nieto administration will continue the IACHR mandate for six months longer, while presenting any progress achieved in the relation to human rights at the U.N. headquarters in Europe.
The disappearance of the students last Sept. 26 has shaken the country and caused widespread outrage, both nationally and internationally, while the Mexican state has been continuously criticized for its handling of the case.
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