September 26, students from the teacher training college in Atequiza, Jalisco joined members of collectives representing relatives of missing persons to mark the eighth anniversary of the abduction and presumed homicide of 43 male students from Iguala, Guerrero—an incident that defined the troubled presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto.
Several mothers of the missing students, all from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College, joined a march from the Minerva Glorieta to the Plaza Liberacion in downtown Guadalajara, where calls were made for justice to be served for the young men, whose remains have never been found.
The commemorations and marches, which took place in cities around the country, came amid fallout from last month’s shock revelations from the Ayotzinapa Truth Commission set up by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in December 2018. These latest findings contradict the “official” version of the case, that the leftist-leaning students, who had commandeered city buses to travel to a rally in Mexico City, were intercepted and detained by municipal police under the orders of Iguala’s mayor, before being handed over to a criminal gang, who took them to a garbage dump, slaughtered them and burned their bodies.
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