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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Mexico: Ayotzinapa Parents of 43 Disappeared Consider Break with Government

La Jornada: Sergio Ocampo and Juan Carlos G. Partida

Parents of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa rural normal school who were disappeared in September 2014, in Iguala, Guerrero, yesterday began to implement a plan of mobilizations agreed upon last Sunday with civil society organizations. They accused President Enrique Peña Nieto of lying and betraying them. Therefore, they said,
"We will overthrow. We tell them that we will continue the fight to find our children."
The parents visited radio stations located in Chilpancingo and Radio UAG, of the Autonomous University of Guerrero. There they said that the Attorney General's Office (PGR) and Peña Nieto
"lied to us. They insist that our children died in the Cocula dump. We will not accept the results of the third study presented by the PGR."
One mother said:
"Our children are not dead. Peña Nieto's government is protecting the former governor (Angel Aguirre Rivero), the former mayor of Iguala (Jose Luis Abarca) and the military. So he blocked the investigation.
In turn, Vidulfo Rosales Sierra, lawyer of Human Rights Center Tlachinollan Mountain, present at UAG Radio said:
"For us, the 43 companions were not cremated in Cocula". He is of the opinion that "Mexicans do not believe in any version, because the process has been badly handled." 
He announced that tomorrow they will meet with the experts [Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts, IGIE] from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to discuss their next steps, and then "later will come the mobilizations".

He added:
"We will analyze whether to carry out a break with the federal government. We believe that they already brought it about, they already did it in practice; It is very difficult to keep talking with them, going on our knees or bowing in an unequal relationship in which we have been beaten and slapped, and that is not dignified."
Meanwhile, Epifanio Alvarez and Emiliano Navarrete, parents of two of the 43 disappeared, said in Guadalajara, Jalisco, that the struggle to locate their children and other students will continue "until the end".
"We demand that the PGR investigation continue indefinitely, until they give the whereabouts of the boys. The group of international experts should reach the end of their investigations and not leave them half done, because the government, although it says it is hand in hand with us and supports us, the reality is quite the opposite," Alvarez said.
Visiting Guadalajara, where last weekend they participated in the regional preparatory meeting of the Interim National Commission of Northern Mexico, attended by representatives of eight states, Alvarez said the PGR "continues without clues". The policemen jailed after the disappearance of the students were charged with drug trafficking or possession of firearms, i.e., still, no one has been made responsible for the disappearance of 43, he said. Spanish original