Mexico Marks 7 Months Since Disappearance of Ayotzinapa Students teleSUR
go to original April 26, 2015

Discontent over 43 missing students probe spawned massive protests in March. (RT America)

It has been seven months since the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students by the corrupt police in the violent southern Mexican state of Guerrero, as friends and families are still demanding the return alive of the students. In Mexico City, there is a march scheduled for 4:00 p.m. local time in remembrance of the tragic events of the night of Sept. 26.

"It is difficult after seven months of waiting. The parents have still not received a response from the government regarding the whereabouts of their children. It is regrettable that the Mexican government maintains such an insensitive posture toward the pain of the parents," Technical Secretary of the Guerrero Network of Human Rights Organizations told Mexican newspaper Sin Embargo on Sunday.

Despite the fierce domestic and international pressure, Mexican authorities do not appear to be any closer to finding the missing students, while they have also failed to lay charges of enforced disappearance on any of the close to 100 people detained in connection with the crime, including the former mayor of Iguala, Jose Luis Abarca, and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, accused of masterminding the disappearance and of heading the local Guerrero drug gang known as Guerreros Unidos or United Warriors.

The search for the missing students has caused widespread public outrage sparking political criticism toward Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto over his government's failure to improve security in the country, where today, over 23,000 people remain disappeared, while over 100,000 have died in the war against drugs that former President Felipe Calderon declared in 2006. Only the remains of one of the 43 students, Alexander Mora, have been identified.

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