Parents of Mexico Students Meet with President Over a Month After Their Disappearance E. Eduardo Castillo and Peter Orsi - The Associated Press | |
go to original October 30, 2014 |
Parents and relatives of 43 missing students in Guerrero state listen during a press conference offered after a meeting with Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto in Mexico City on October 29, 2014. (Francisco Canedo/AFP)
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto met with parents of 43 teachers college students for the first time since they disappeared over a month ago, when investigators say police detained the students and handed them over to a drug gang.
The mothers and fathers of the missing have grown increasingly frustrated at the pace of the investigation of the Sept. 26 police attack in the city of Iguala, which also left six dead. The case has shaken the image of improving security that the government has sought to project since Pena Nieto took office in 2012.
After meeting for about six hours inside the Los Pinos presidential residence, parents said they told Pena Nieto they did not have confidence in the investigation, and the government agreed to measures including the creation of a commission to monitor the case.
“We are not going to trust the words of the president nor the commitments that were made public … until they present the 43 students to us alive,” Felipe de la Cruz, one of the parents, said at a news conference late Wednesday.
At one point earlier in the day, human rights officials had said the meeting was over but the family members were refusing to leave until Pena Nieto signed a document that would satisfy everyone.
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