Ayotzi Vive: Mexico Joins 'No Pants Subway Ride' in Memory of Missing Students Agencia EFE
go to original January 12, 2015

Metro riders turned out in Mexico City on Sunday in no pants as part of the annual "No Pants Subway Ride". Report by Claire Lomas. (ODN)

MEXICO CITY - Dozens of people in Mexico City have participated in the international "No Pants Subway Ride", in memory of the 43 students who went missing from the Ayotzinapa teachers' training institute in September.

"Ayotzi Vive," meaning "Ayotzinapa Lives", was painted on the undergarments of the participants Sunday im memory of the students who went missing at the hands of corrupt authorities and a criminal gang in the southern town of Iguala.

The activists also made allusions to the students with messages painted on their thighs and buttocks.

The "No Pants Subway Ride" in Mexico City, which seeks to mobilize Mexican society on the issue of the missing students, concluded with a mass rally near the National Auditorium.

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Photo: AFP/Ronaldo Schemidt

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