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Thursday, April 7, 2016

Mexico: Ayotzinapa Students Close School in Protest, Ask that Expert Group Continue Investigating

La escuela normal rural "Raúl Isidro Burgos", en Ayotzinapa, Guerrero. Foto: Octavio Gómez
"Raúl Isidro Burgos" Rural Teacher Training School in
Ayotzinapa, Guerrero.
Photo: Octavio Gómez (Proceso)
Aristegui Noticias: Students at the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training School in Guerrero closed their campus facilities and suspended academic activities as part of the plan of protests against the federal government.

Proceso magazine reported that more than 500 students declared the suspension of classes until the government of Peña Nieto presents alive their 43 fellow students who were disappeared in Iguala in September 2014.

In early October 2014, after the Iguala tragedy, the students began a strike that they didn't end until March 2015. In order not to lose the school year, they adhered to classes online.

Last Friday after the PGR announced a third expert opinion about the fire at the Cocula dump, the parents of the disappeared 43 students, their fellow Ayotzinapa students and social organizations agreed to resume the demonstrations.

One of the leaders of the student committee, Ernesto Guerrero, confirmed that starting yesterday, they suspended classes and closed the entrance to teaching personnel.

Another demand made to the government is that the presence in Mexico of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (IGIE) be extended until what happened in Iguala the night of September 26, 2014, is cleared up.

With information from ProcesoSpanish original