Father of One of Mexico's 'Missing 43' Will Run the NYC Marathon with a Heavy, Hopeful Heart Jason McGahan - Village Voice
go to original October 31, 2015

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With just days to go until the New York City Marathon, Antonio Tizapa keeps his training regimen simple: he gets home after 5pm, eats a light pasta dinner at his apartment in south Brooklyn, changes clothes and steps out for a run as the street lights are coming on.

So close to a race, he is careful not to overexert himself. No hills, flat ground only. A 30-minute trot south on 18th Avenue to Gravesend Bay, and half an hour back.

Tizapa has the lean build and low resting heart rate of a long-distance runner. He wears a dark hoodie to stay warm, and drapes a white cotton shirt over it, sleeveless like a basketball jersey. There is the headshot of a solemn young man on the front and above it the words “My son is your son, and your son is my son.”

Tizapa's son, Jorge Antonio, disappeared in Mexico on the night of September 26, 2014. He was one of 43 young men, freshmen from the the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa, who were forced off intercity buses and “disappeared” in Guerrero state. Numerous witnesses say the men who took the students away that night were police.

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