New Poster Campaign Asks: 'What If It Were Your Kids, Mr. President?' Rafa Fernandez de Castro - Fusion
go to original September 29, 2015

The son of President Peña Nieto as one of the missing students. (Daniela Buenfil)

Photographs of the Mexican President’s son and stepdaughter are being plastered on walls across Mexico City with messages asking how the case of the missing 43 students would have turned out differently if they had been related to the country’s rich and powerful families.

“If they took me alive? Would you want me back alive?,” reads the poster, invoking the popular protest slogan: vivos se los llevaron, vivos los queremos (they were taken alive, we want them back alive).

It’s not clear who is behind the poster campaign. The images of the street posters were first uploaded to Facebook by user Daniela Buenfil who spotted them during last weekend’s one year anniversary Ayotzinapa march. The images now appear to be spreading across social media.

“This idea seems like a punch to impunity in Mexico, where justice narratives are completely different between the rich and powerful, and the rest of the population,” Buenfil told Fusion. “What if these were the kids of rich and famous people? We would probably already have an answer.”

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