The Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College' s Message to the World: Organize! Laura Carlsen - CounterPunch
go to original September 28, 2016

The government continues to drag its feet in resolving the case of missing 43 Ayotzinapa students, says Laura Carlsen. (TheRealNews)

It has been two years since the crime of Ayotzinapa. A moment of soul-searching for Mexico.

You can feel it in the streets. You can read it in the many articles and messages that look back to the terrible night that that six lives were lost and 43 disappeared and a nation was forced to come to terms with the violence and corruption at its heart

Ayotzinapa, the rural teachers’ college set on a mountainside in the dirt-poor state of Guerrero, marched again, like on the 26th of every month, but this time to commemorate two full years of impunity and lies.

It could be a time for mourning. It could be an act of rage. Many, especially the families, do still feel the mourning and the rage, and they will every day until, unless, their sons are returned. But to see that day, after hundreds of nights of tears and scores of meetings, marches, press conferences, community talks, parents and fellow students have one message: Organize.

“We need more participation of the people. More serious and responsible organization,” says Omar Garcia, an Ayotzinapa student who survived the attacks and has become a powerful spokesperson for the movement to bring his friends back alive.



It’s grassroots organization – in Mexico and the world – that has kept the memory of the students alive far beyond the aggrieved hearts of their parents and demanded that the crime of the state be punished. Today, to remember is more important than ever.

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Related: Scientific Test Demonstrates Ayotzinapa Students Could Not Have Been Cremated in Dump (Mexico Voices)

Related: Mexican Human Rights Commission Demands Justice on Two-Year Anniversary of Student Massacre (PanAm Post)

Related: Unsolved Ayotzinapa Case Underscores Mexico Security Failures (Insight Crime)

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Related: Two Years on, Mexico’s Peña Nieto Can’t Get Rid of Stain of the Missing Ayotzinapa 43 (The Wire)

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