Government of Mexico to parents of normalistas

The investigations into the disappearance of the 43 normal students from Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, will always remain open.

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, committed to this when meeting after 9 months with the fathers and mothers of the young students kidnapped and disappeared almost 10 years ago in Iguala, Guerrero.

In a press release issued last Monday night, the presidency of Mexico detailed that in the meeting with the mothers and fathers, the undersecretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob) and the president of the CoVAJ, Arturo Medina Padilla, presented reports and delivered intelligence documents related to the case.

“He gave mothers and fathers a compendium with 15 new pages from the Regional Intelligence Fusion Centers (CRFI) and 70 documents related to said communications, which he specified were among the more than 120 thousand pages that the Ministry of Since 2019, the National Defense (Sedena) handed over to the Special Unit for the Investigation and Litigation of the Ayotzinapa case (Ueilca), attached to the FGR,” the report detailed.

Both officials made it clear that the federal government will continue “working until we find their children or some trace that will help us locate them.”

In addition, they detailed that they are working with nine field search teams that have intervened 275 sites in eight municipalities over 551 work days.

At the same time, they were updated on the progress regarding the genetic analysis carried out by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) on various remains found in the search efforts.

Additionally, the meeting addressed “the impunity generated by the ruling issued by a court in Tamaulipas, the effects of which led to the release of 73 possibly involved in the disappearance of the students.

At the time, the relatives of the normalistas requested not to close the case and that the investigations continue “because there is a need to generate a transition mechanism with the next president-elect and for the authorities to continue providing information.”

The meeting was attended by the secretaries of Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez, and of Foreign Affairs, Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, as well as the secretaries of National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval González, and of the Navy, José Rafael Ojeda Durán.

In addition, the heads of the National Search Commission (CNB), Teresa Guadalupe Reyes Sahagún; and from the Executive Commission for Attention to Victims (CEAV), Martha Yuriria Rodríguez Estrada, as well as the Fiscal Attorney of the Federation, Grisel Galeano García.

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