Mexico City. On the tenth anniversary of the crimes against the Ayotzinapa normalistas, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged that “things became complicated” and truth and justice were not achieved during his mandate.

“But the truth always makes its way and justice takes time, but it comes. We have to move forward,” he said this Thursday morning.

He did not miss the opportunity to express his solidarity with the families of the students, 43 of them victims of forced disappearance and another three murdered on the so-called Iguala night, September 26 and 27, 2014.

“I do not want to stop expressing my feelings, my sadness, and expressing my solidarity with the mothers and fathers of the young people of Ayotzinapa, today marks 10 years since their disappearance,” he said.

He emphasized that in his administration “we did everything to find the young people and no one was protected, we wanted to know everything. “Things became complicated, they are tangled, complicated, due to interests.”

On the eve of the end of his government, he indicated that in the few days he still has in office, he will continue working to try to find the whereabouts of the normalistas.

“And as I expressed in the letter, which I wrote to you, which I sent (to the families), Claudia Sheinbaum, the next president, is a very sensitive woman, she is going to give the investigation a hard time. There is no, let it be very clear to you, I tell you honestly, with all my feelings, there is no impunity for anyone.”

Regarding the unprecedented security operation that is taking place in the vicinity of the capital’s Zócalo—where the families of the young people and thousands of protesters will arrive this afternoon to demand justice and truth in the case—the president asserted that the intention is to prevent.

“They are going to demonstrate, they have every right to do so, we must understand what the loss of a human being means, especially when it is a child.”

He added: “Although they are very fair demands, of course, there are always provocateurs, people who take advantage of circumstances, opportunists, sectarians, conservatives who would like to harm us.

“Then we have to protect the historical buildings, in this case the Cathedral, the National Palace, because not only the dads and moms come, right-wing groups come, very conservative, those who cover their faces and throw stones, rockets, etc. , Molotov cocktails and seek to do harm. So, without repression, because our government has not and will not have repression, we are going to ensure that there is a peaceful demonstration,” he concluded.

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chis. Ten years after the disappearance of the 43 normalistas from Ayotzinapa, there has been “neither truth nor justice,” stated the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).

“Not the slightest empathy from those who have the power only to show off and show off, but not to serve and resolve. The executioner intends to present himself as a victim,” he added in a statement released this Thursday, signed by Subcommander Moisés.

In this long journey, he elaborated in the document addressed “to the mothers, fathers, fellow students, companions of those absent from Ayotzinapa”, “they have encountered betrayals, with those who only used their pain to have a position, a cause to change color in the government, or, the most miserable, a payment.”

He stated that “we know the pain and anger of understanding now that, no matter the color, contempt and lies continue up there. We know that it has not only been the hope of finding those who are missing that has moved them, because in these years their pain has extended to the thousands of relatives of the missing people in this country.”

He added: “And every mother, every father, family member, friend, has deepened that pain until it reaches its bed of rage that it seeks and does not find.”

The EZLN expressed that “in bad governments, the hunter’s gaze continues looking for his next victim. But… We, the Zapatista peoples, believe that we have in common with you this feeling that is only found in the hearts of those who fight.”

He maintained that “the day will come when the figures of those who tirelessly search for those who need them, of the fathers and mothers of those absent from Ayotzinapa, of their fellow students, of their teachers, of their relatives and friends, will be associated with two words whose real absence this geography now suffers from: truth and justice.”

He remarked: “And the day will come when being a student, man or woman, of a rural normal or whatever, employee, worker, adult or elderly, will not be a reason for persecution, contempt, disappearance, death,” But for that day to arrive, we must continue.”

He stated that “if we cannot still inherit that truth and that justice to those who follow us in calendars and geographies, we can inherit to them the rage, memory and dignity necessary to not give up, not sell out and not give in.”

On behalf of the Zapatista women, men, elderly, girls and boys, he reiterated that “if we do not achieve this, there will always be a night of Iguala stalking those below, their young blood, and they will always be guilty of rebellion. If there is no truth or justice, let there be no shortage of rage and memory.”

Mexico City. Among messages of support such as “You are not alone!” and “Justice!” Equalize.

“We came out to raise our voices because we have no information about what really happened on the night of September 26 and early morning of September 27,” said Isidoro Vicario, the families’ lawyer.

The group of fathers and mothers advances along Paseo de la Reforma carrying the images of their children and accompanied by their legal representatives, as well as members of the Office in Mexico of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-DH Mexico ) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). All protected by a commission to allow the mobilization to flow.

On a rainy day, as happened the night 10 years ago when normal students from Ayotzinapa were attacked by elements of the police and organized crime in Iguala, Guerrero, normal students and university students participated in the march and reproached the “10 years of impunity.” ”.

Some normalistas carry with them cardboard coffins with a wooden cross. They have read the message Ayotzinapa 10 years.

Photo Luis Castillo

Behind the parents, the contingents of students, men and women, from normal schools from different states of the country advance.

“Because they took them alive, we want them alive!”, “Educate, learn, for the people to defend!”, “Be careful, be careful with Guerrero, guerrilla state!” and “people, listen, the fight is for your children!” are some of the slogans that the young people shout with their left fists raised as they advance on Paseo de la Reforma.

The students carry posters alluding to the 10 years that this day marks for the forced disappearance of 43 of their classmates in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, as well as large banners in which with great creativity they express “your pain is our pain.”