Experts in Mexico Still Wait for Access to Information Over Missing Students Case Agencia EFE
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A forensic examiner walks along a garbage-strewn hillside above a ravine where examiners were searching for human remains in densely forested mountains outside Cocula, Guerrero state, Mexico, Oct. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

The Mexican government has responded to just 30 percent of the requests for information about the disappearance last year of 43 education students in the southern state of Guerrero, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, or IACHR, experts working on the case said.

Some 47 percent of the requests for information pertaining to the investigation have not been addressed, while the rest have been partially processed, the five experts said during a press conference in Mexico City.

"The quick handling of these requests is very important for complying with the mandate of the Interdisciplinary Group within the established timeframe," Angela Buitrago, a Colombian expert on the panel, said, adding that new requests will be filed in the next few days.

...The delay "limits efforts" to make progress in the investigation and search for the students, Buitrago said.

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