Rosendo Gómez Piedra, the special prosecutor for the Ayotzinapa case, admitted on May 27 that his unit has not yet located the 43 missing students. This statement was made prior to a meeting with President Claudia Sheinbaum and relatives of the disappeared students.
During the meeting, students voiced their demand for Gómez Piedra’s resignation, citing accusations of corruption, a lack of trust, and his failure to provide definitive answers regarding the students’ whereabouts. On this occasion, Mauricio Pazarán was introduced as the new research coordinator for the UEILCA, the unit tasked with the inquiry.
Gómez Piedra assumed his role in October 2022, following the resignation of Omar Gómez Trejo, whose work had been previously criticized by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero. Gómez Piedra stated that his team has conducted searches at over 800 locations in the Sierra region in their ongoing efforts to find the students.