11 years after the Ayotzinapa mass kidnapping, protesters demand answers in Mexico City ‘mega-march’

Mexico City authorities braced for imaginable unit up of Friday’s “mega-march” commemorating the 11th day of the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College successful Guerrero.

The march’s planned way follows 4.2 kilometers from the Angel of Independence Monument connected Paseo de la Reforma Avenue to the National Palace, which was sealed disconnected with metallic fences. Roughly 3,000 protesters are expected to attend, the work Milenio reported. As of 5 p.m. section time, nary attendance estimates were available.

An earlier protestation gathered extracurricular the Campo Militar, wherever acts of unit took spot that were aboriginal condmened by President Claudia Sheinbaum. (Rogelio Morales/Cuartoscuro.com)

In summation to demanding justness for the 43, this week’s demonstrations purpose to item different forced disappearances and quality rights violations that proceed to hap successful the country.

Other rallies took spot connected Friday morning, prompting metropolis authorities to close disconnected downtown streets, shutter national ministries and protect historical structures successful hopes of discouraging violence.

President Claudia Sheinbaum met with parents of the missing students connected Sept. 4, but the families near the gathering disappointed, insisting that acold from advancement successful the case, determination was regression.

Sheinbaum created a caller investigative unit to reappraisal the inactive unresolved lawsuit successful March, but has small to amusement for it.

“We’re moving connected it,” she said Friday morning. “There’s a caller peculiar authoritative … and we’re committed to doing everything imaginable to uncover the information and supply justice.”

Even arsenic Sheinbaum reiterated her committedness to supply “truth and justice” to household members of the “disappeared,” she condemned Thursday’s unit astatine a notorious subject installation successful Mexico City.

Ayotizinapa protesters had gathered astatine the Campo Militar No. 1 successful occidental Mexico City arsenic portion of the mobilizations organized up of Friday’s mega-march.

“We bash not condone violence,” she said. “We are not going to beryllium provoked into repressive action, but we bash not hold with actions similar we saw yesterday.”

The subject basal was a clandestine situation during the “Dirty War” of the 1970s and students detained determination aft the 1968 protests were tortured astatine the camp.

On Wednesday, different objection was held extracurricular the Foreign Relations Ministry (SRE) building.

Metal fences were erected successful beforehand of the National Palace connected the eastbound broadside of the Zócalo, the planned ending constituent of Friday’s march. (Andrea Murcia/Cuartoscuro.com)

Students from the teachers’ assemblage carried posters featuring the faces of their missing schoolmates portion shouting slogans demanding justice. They besides demanded that the SRE instrumentality enactment to repatriate suspects who fled abroad.

One specified suspect, Tomás Zerón, has taken refuge successful Israel. The state has refused to extradite him contempt pleas from Sheinbaum to instrumentality him to Mexico. Zerón, the manager of the Criminal Investigation Agency from 2013-2016, faces accusations of abduction, torture and tampering with grounds related to the Ayotzinapa case.

Thursday’s protestation astatine the subject installation turned convulsive erstwhile students crashed a cargo motortruck against the main gross successful an effort to summation entry. When that failed, they acceptable the motortruck ablaze and tossed fireworks astatine the wall.

Earlier, parents of the 43 “disappeared” young men led a rally extracurricular the subject camp, calling connected the Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) to travel lines of probe implicating subject personnel.

The families of the disappeared proceed to judge the subject was progressive successful the Ayotzinapa lawsuit — either by omission oregon committee — and are frustrated implicit the apprehension and merchandise of suspects, including subject personnel, that person beleaguered the investigation.

The protesters besides reiterated their request that the Army manus implicit hundreds of pages of alleged classified documents that allegedly incorporate accusation astir the tragic incidental successful Iguala, Guerrero.

Sheinbaum has the authorization to bid the subject to merchandise the documents, but she has said that the Army already turned implicit each applicable information. However, members of an Inter-American Commission connected Human Rights squad that investigated the incidental importune otherwise.

With reports from El Sol de México, Milenio, N+, Sin Embargo and Infobae