Victims’ Families Continue to Search for Truth and Justice Washington, DC—Four years after 43 students from Ayotzinapa, Mexico were attacked by Mexican security forces and forcibly disappeared on September 26, 2014, the Mexican government has failed to determine their whereabouts or secure convictions for those responsible. The Peña Nieto administration continues to defend its thoroughly […]
Thousands of people gathered in Mexico’s second-largest city Thursday to protest the deaths of three film students who were killed and dissolved in acid in a case that has highlighted the disappearance of the country’s youth amid a vicious drug war. The students were abducted March 19 on the outskirts of Guadalajara after working on
Radical students in southern Mexico hijacked a fuel tanker truck and two buses Wednesday and later kidnapped four police officers to demand the release of about 10 students arrested over the vehicle thefts. The events marked the latest chapter of violence at a rural teachers college where 43 students were kidnapped in 2014 and remain
Mexico’s national human rights commission said Thursday it had found a witness to the 2014 disappearance of 43 students who reported that two federal police and a third municipal police force were present when 15 to 20 youths were taken off a bus and disappeared. The new evidence suggests two federal police officers at the
Miguel Angel Jimenez, a political activist who played a prominent early role in the search for 43 students and other missing people in southern Mexico, was slain over the weekend, an associate said Monday. The bullet-ridden body of Jimenez, a member of the Union of Towns and Organizations, or UPOEG for its initials in Spanish,
The rattletrap sedan cruised the streets of Iguala, its roof crowned by a loudspeaker blaring headlines from the day’s newspaper: “Another killed! Another killed!” To the residents of Iguala, however, this hardly seemed like news. Bloodshed was part of life in Iguala before local police allegedly disappeared 43 college students here in September, and it
Mexico’s delegation told the U.N. Committee on Enforced Disappearances at a review last week that 11,300 people were unaccounted for. Amnesty International said in a statement that more than 22,600 had gone missing in the past eight years amid “a huge problem of impunity”. In their findings, the committee’s 10 independent experts said they had
Protesters in Mexico City are marking four months since the disappearance of 43 rural teachers’ college students in southern Mexico. Demonstrators streamed through the streets from four starting points to converge at the capital’s massive main square, the Zocalo. They brandished portraits of the missing, and signs demanding their return along with punishment for those
President Barack Obama says the U.S. has offered to help Mexico figure out what happened to 43 college students who’ve been missing since September. But he stops short of saying the U.S. will reconsider aid to Mexico based on human rights. When asked about aid by the Spanish-language television network Telemundo in an interview Tuesday,
The men are holed up with their buses on the college’s soccer field, sleeping in the compartments that once held passenger luggage and hanging the clothes they’ve hand-washed from the windshields. While attention has focused on the kidnapping and disappearance of 43 students from the Raul Isidro Burgos teachers college in Tixtla, few have paid
