“As always, respect. Tell them the truth, inform them how the investigation is going,” AMLO said in a statement.this Sunday, July 28, to local media during the tour he made with the president-elect of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum.
His statements come amid a climate of growing tension after it emerged that, in mid-July, López Obrador sent a letter to the parents of the 43 missing students in which he defended the Armed Forces.
In the letter, the president accused human rights defenders, international organizations such as the Organization of American States (OAS), agencies of the United States Government, Opponents and journalists seek to weaken the Mexican Army and launch a smear campaign against him.
While, Friday, July 26 in his morning speech, The president again discredited the versions that link the Army as an institution with the disappearance of the 43 students from AyotzinapaHe insisted that if the Armed Forces are accused of this crime, evidence must be provided to support it, although he stated that “he will not grant impunity to anyone.”
“Don’t forget who the victims are,” say Ayotzinapa relatives
In response to the letter, Wednesday, July 24the parents posted another letter in which they criticized the president for “deceiving” them and contradicting the version of the Truth Commissioncreated by the current Government, which in 2022 concluded that the incident was a “state crime” in which the Armed Forces participated.
“We would like to remind you, President, in case you have also forgotten, that The victim is not you, but we who lost our children due to a crime of forced disappearance, crimes that have certainly increased like never before in the history of our country,” they said.
Protests over the crime could intensify because September 26 marks 10 years since the incident.
Sheinbaum takes on the Ayotzinapa case: she is committed to the families
López Obrador has said that if there is no progress in the investigation, he will leave the case in the hands of President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, who has also promised to meet with the parents of the missing youths.
Sheinbaumfor his part, in a press conference from his transition house, He stressed that his first “tasks” in this folder are to “listen” to the families and “review” the progress that his predecessor has made..
On Monday, July 29, “the president will receive them first. Then, we will receive them (us),” Sheinbaum responded when asked if she would be present at the meeting between López Obrador and the families of the students who disappeared on September 26, 2014.
Ayotzinapa disappearance: violence, cover-up and connections with drug traffickers
He On September 26, 2014, students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College disappeared while trying to leave the city of Iguala.Guerrero aboard buses they had taken – this was a tradition that local transport companies tolerated.
The goal was to move to a protest in Mexico City in Commemoration of the student tragedy: the Tlatelolco massacre of 1968when dozens of protesters were killed by government forces.
In accordance with the Commission for Truth and Access to Justicein this fact highlighted the role of the government of the president in office, Enrique Peña Nieto, in the attempt to hide the truth on the disappearance of the students and the active participation in the event.
According to investigations, municipal police officers and other armed men forced the occupants of the vehicles to get out, shooting some and taking the rest away in the darkness. In addition, it has been established that both The police, the military and even the coroner in charge of the investigation had connections to local drug trafficking groups.
At around 10:45 p.m. that night, “following the acts of violence and persecution, the order was given to disappear the students,” the commission’s report says.
In fact, AMLO has pointed out that the nearly 20 military personnel who are linked to the case were involved due to omissions or because they are linked to organized crime.
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