Ayotzinapa Nine Years Later

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Issue Sep 20-26 2023: On September 26, 2023, Mexicans marked the ninth anniversary of the abduction (and probable murder) of the 43 “normalistas,” and the confirmed murder of 3 more, from the Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero. In the months after the disappearances, then President Enrique Peña Nieto’s attorney general, Jesús Murillo Karam, offered what he dubbed the “historical truth” in 2015 that supposedly explained what had happened to the normal school students. He claimed that corrupt police officers detained the students and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos cartel, which murdered them and incinerated them in the Cocula garbage dump. Once in office, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador made the case a priority and promised the normalistas’ relatives that he would find the truth. Yet in the years since, despite claims by AMLO’s administration that it has made progress in dismantling the “historical truth,” suspicions have grown that an active coverup is in progress to shelter the Mexican Army from scrutiny of its role in the events. Much opinion and analysis was on offer.

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