Several hundred protesters took to the streets of Guadalajara Monday to mark the second anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college in the state of Guerrero.
The clamor for justice was heard simultaneously in towns and cities throughout Mexico.
The students went missing after commandeering buses during a protest in the town of Iguala in September 2014.
Investigators determined that municipal police officers apprehended the students and handed them over to a local drug gang. They were then killed and their bodies taken to a garbage landfill and burned, the police case concluded.
However, none of the students’ remains, or their DNA, has ever been found and parents refuse to believe the federal government’s hypothesis.
Scientific research by independent analysts from abroad later disputed this theory, which is now largely discredited.
More than 100 people have been arrested in connection with the disappearance of the 43 students, including police officers, cartel members and Iguala municipal officials, but no one has yet to be charged with homicide.
Although the federal government promised to continue the investigation, there seems to be no new leads, and parents of the students this week said they would continue fighting their cause until they know exactly what happened to their children.