ayotzinapa case

Mexico City. Fathers and mothers made a stop at the Antimonumento +43, between Paseo de la Reforma and Juárez Avenue, where they placed a memorial with the support of members of solidarity organizations, who carry out work in the median to install metal structures in which the images of the 43 missing normalistas.

The memorial was installed to demand truth and justice and an end to impunity.

Afterwards, the parents of the students held the usual roll call with the names of each of the students, as well as those who died on the night of September 26, 2014.

Previously, the families were received by members of groups of relatives of missing persons who expressed their support.

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Parents of the 43 manage to access the Zócalo

The concrete blocks that were installed on 5 de Mayo Street to access the Plaza de la Constitución were not an impediment for the mothers and fathers of the 43 normal students, as they managed to pass through a small passage, but not before regretting that they were Put up this type of fence to prevent them from demonstrating freely.

They described the act as a provocation. They entered the Zócalo square, shouting “Because they took them alive, we want them alive”, “now it is essential to present them alive and punish the guilty.”

Mexico City. “Whoever governs governs, whoever it is, even with discredits, disqualifications and even when they put up barriers, we will continue to demand the presentation alive of the 43” missing Ayotzinapa normal students, parents of the young people stated at a rally on the Zócalo plateau. capital.

As today marks 10 years since the Iguala night and a few days before the end of the current government, they reiterated that their fight “is unwavering and we will continue to demand the presentation alive” of the students.

In front of thousands of people who accompanied them throughout the march from the Angel of Independence, Mario González, father of César Manuel, complained to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for not fulfilling his commitment to find the whereabouts of the young people.

“You know perfectly well who was the one who participated massively in the cowardly attack on our children, what it was that we need in Mexico, that there really is and that justice is no longer absent,” he stated.

Hilda Legideño, mother of Jorge Antonio Tizapa, regretted that the chief executive “betrayed the trust that we placed as parents and turned his back on the Ayotzinapa case to protect the Army.”

However, he said that the fathers and mothers of the normalistas “will continue forward, we are right, there is evidence, there are reports that demonstrate the participation of the military. “We demand that the missing (military) folios be handed over where all the information about what happened that night is.”

Likewise, he asked on behalf of the families that the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) return, “because only they will lead us towards the path to knowing about our children.”

The fathers and mothers also addressed the elected president Claudia Sheinbaum “we will continue to move forward demanding truth at the same level” from the new president. “We are not going to take a step back,” said Emiliano Navarrete, father of José Ángel.

Also to the incoming government “we tell you that if you plan to do this (blocking the marches) we are going to continue fighting. And tell him that we are not going to give him as much time as we gave to this character (López Obrador) who unfortunately betrayed us,” added Mario González.

While the rally was taking place, a group of hooded men threw firecrackers on the other side of the metal fences guarding the National Palace. However, the fathers and mothers of the normalistas asked to be allowed to continue with their message.

“We are going to ask our colleagues to allow us to continue with our rallies to hear the word of the mothers and fathers,” asked Vidulfo Rosales, the families’ lawyer.

The demonstration ended around eight at night. In a Zócalo where the voice of the normalistas resounded: “Because they took them alive, we want them alive,” “September 26 is not forgotten.”

Mexico City. Less than a day after being installed, the memorial to remember the 43 normalistas of Ayotzinapa is damaged.

The structure was installed yesterday by fathers and mothers, as well as solidarity organizations, on the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of their children.

On a tour taken by The Day In Antimonument +43, on Paseo de la Reforma, it was observed that three mosaics are broken.

One of these is the one with the photograph of the student Carlos Lorenzo Hernández Muñoz, while the one of Christian Tomás Colón Garnica is missing a piece, only part of the face and his surnames are visible.

The same damage presents another mosaic, which is the one that had a QR code with which, by placing the camera of a cell phone, one could access the reports of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI).

The groups of families of the disappeared repudiated this act of “contempt and hatred,” and demanded that the federal and Mexico City governments provide protection to the memorial, in addition to investigating and punishing those responsible.

“Ten years ago we woke up with the painful news of the disappearance, today with the news that several faces woke up broken,” they lamented in a statement.

The memorial reads: “We installed this memorial to demand truth, justice and the end of impunity in our country. “10 years after the events, our demand is unwavering, so we demand from the government that our children be presented alive.”

Mexico City. Personnel from the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) re-arrested Felipe Salgado Rodríguez, The Brushidentified as one of those responsible for the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students.

Rodríguez Salgado was arrested on the basis of an arrest warrant for organized crime at his home in the Las Vigas neighborhood in Acapulco, Guerrero.

The arrest was carried out early yesterday morning, during an operation led by personnel from the Federal Ministerial Police, and was placed at the disposal of the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office at the FGR facilities in that city.

After being arrested in 2015, during the interrogations he was subjected to The Brush o The Stubborn Oneidentified as a member of a group of hitmen at the service of United Warriorstold the then Attorney General’s Office (PGR) that he had killed more than 10 students from the “Raúl Isidro Burgos” rural normal school, known as Ayotzinapa, with gunshots in the early hours of September 27, 2014.

He was also one of the detainees who declared that he had taken a group of students who had been deprived of their freedom in the city of Iguala to the municipal dump in Cocula and after having incinerated their bodies, they put the remains in bags which they later threw into the Cocula River.

In June 2018, Rodríguez Salgado was released by a federal judge based in Tamaulipas, in compliance with an amparo ruling, considering that there was not enough evidence in the file against him for the crime of organized crime, since for the justice administrator, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office did not prove the existence of the criminal group. United Warriors.

Likewise, the First Collegiate Court based in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, granted him freedom for the accusations against him for the disappearance of the students, considering that the statements made were obtained through acts of torture, a situation from which Gildardo López Astudillo also benefited. Cape Gila regional leader of United Warriorswho was re-arrested a few days ago.

Mexico City. Gildardo Lopez Astudillo, The Cape Gilidentified as one of the main people involved in the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students, was placed at the disposal of a federal judge based in the Federal Center of Criminal Justice, based in Almoloya de Juárez, and is currently in prison at the Federal Center for Social Readaptation No. 1, Altiplano, in the state of Mexico.

The Cape Gil He was arrested for the first time in September 2015, based on an arrest warrant obtained based on the allegations made by various members of the cUnited Warriors Artalso involved in the disappearance of the 43 normalistas in September 2014.

According to the investigations of 2024-2015 and which can be consulted on the website of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), The Gil He was an intermediary between Sidronio Casarrubias, leader of Warriors Uniday The Chuckyidentified as the head of the criminal organization’s hitmen.

Federal agents found several messages on Sidronio Casarrubias’ phone. The Gil in which he informed him that he had some “contras” in his power (in reference to The Redsenemies of the Warriors Unidaalthough both groups were splits from the sign of the Beltrán Leyva), as they supposedly identified the normalistas on the evening of September 26, 2014, and for which they would have attacked them.

Casarrubias responded via another text message to proceed “as you already know, to make them disappear.”

López Astudillo received a group of students between the night of September 26 and the early morning of the 27th in a place located in Loma de Coyote, four kilometers from the house of the now detained man, and allegedly ordered their execution.

After being imprisoned for almost four years, The Cape Gil was released. On August 24, 2019, the First District Court for Federal Criminal Proceedings based in Tamaulipas ordered his release because he had allegedly been subjected to acts of torture, without analyzing whether there was legally obtained evidence proving his responsibility in the disappearance of the students.

In 2020, the special prosecutor’s office for the Iguala case granted him the benefit of being a collaborating witness, and at the beginning of this year the proceedings against him were restarted. The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office obtained two arrest warrants against him, for which he was re-arrested on Thursday and is already in prison in Cefereso number 1 awaiting the definition of his legal situation.