We're Not Selling Our Kids: Families of 43 Missing Mexico Students Reject Payoff teleSUR
go to original March 25, 2016

Parents of the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students rejected government offers to be paid out as compensation for “damages” related to the loss of their loved ones, while the families still wait for adequate answers a year and a half after the students were forcibly disappeared, Mexico’s La Jornada reported Friday.

Ayotzinapa families spokesperson Felipe de la Cruz told La Jornada that rather than accept compensation, the group plans to continue their search. And it’s not the first time the government has offered the families money.

“For a long time federal and state authorities have come even to the houses of the families to offer a certain amount of money, but it has been rejected,” said Cruz.

“They have come to offer money, but they forget that for the parents of the families of the 43 disappeared students, that’s what interests us the least,” he added. “We are not going to sell our children and the stance of the movement remains the same.”

The families have urges authorities to comply with expectations to keep the independent experts working on the case involved in the next stage of the investigation.

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