Forty-three Mexican Students Went Missing. What Really Happened to Them? Alma Guillermoprieto - New Yorker
go to original March 8, 2024

Update: López Obrador Will Meet with the Parents of Missing Ayotzinapa Students (Mexico News Daily)

The march in Mexico City has become an almost sacred ritual for thousands of young people across the country, and, for the young Ayotzis, their search for transportation must have felt heroic: ¡Dos de octubre no se olvida! In the capital of Guerrero, Chilpancingo, fifteen minutes away from the school, bus takeovers were a frequent, even negotiated event, but that morning the students were chased away by the police.

After another failed attempt in the afternoon, they ended up on the outskirts of Iguala, a town some fifty miles from their turf. The students split into two groups. One group finally managed to take over a bus bound for the downtown Iguala terminal, and the driver persuaded them to let him deliver the passengers to their destination before he returned with the students to campus. But at the terminal he let the passengers out and swiftly locked the students inside.

Soon afterward, the rest of the Ayotzis arrived to rescue their mates. Shouting and banging on the doors of buses, they commandeered three others in a matter of minutes, for a total of five, and prepared to head back to their school in triumph.

That was when the killing started.

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