Iguala Front for Dignity: Search for Missing Students Expands to 300 People World Bulletin
go to original November 26, 2014

Four new mass graves have been uncovered in Mexico as people continue to search for the 43 missing students who vanished in September. Telemundo’s Julio Vaqueiro reports. (msnbc)

Mayra Vergara Fernandez has been searching for her brother, Thomas, for more than two years in the municipality of Huitzuco, about 20 miles from Iguala, Mexico.

“I went to the mountains two days ago and I could not tell my mom about the atrocities I have seen,” she said. “There are bones everywhere. But the authorities did not want to help us with that. That is reason why we are here today. To do the job by ourselves.”

Vergara Fernandez is speaking about 50 people who formed a circle on Sunday in front of the windowless City Hall in Iguala, a building that bears the scars of violent protests for the return of the 43 missing students, who disappeared here two months ago, after clashing with police.

Those protests helped spark international attention on the case, including global protests in more than 200 cities across the world last week, including in many U.S. cities.

But most of those who showed up from Iguala and the surrounding towns in the southwestern state of Guerrero on Sunday, they have quietly shared for years the heavy burden that comes from the emptiness left by the disappearances of their sons, wives, brothers and other relatives and friends.

The 50 odd searchers call themselves The Iguala Front for Dignity, whose sole purpose is to find out what happened to hundreds of missing people from Iguala.

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