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TBF

(34,179 posts)
Sat Sep 26, 2015, 11:04 AM Sep 2015

The Missing 43

To date, nobody knows exactly what happened on the night of September 26, 2014, when the students disappeared while traveling from Ayotzinapa to the nearby city of Iguala. Video footage that surfaced late last year shows a violent clash between the students and what appear to be local police officers. Six students were killed during the confrontation, and the 43 others vanished in an assumed mass kidnapping.


MEXICO CITY—Exactly one year ago, 43 students from a rural teachers college in the Mexican state of Guerrero disappeared after a violent confrontation with authorities. Over the past 12 months, Mexico City residents have made it clear that they won’t forget the incident until the government comes clean about what happened—or the students return alive, whatever comes first.

Wander the streets of Mexico’s capital and you’ll undoubtedly encounter the number 43 scrawled across statues and scribbled on the sides of buildings. Sometimes, the 43 is accompanied by the phrase “todos somos Ayotzi” (we are all Ayotzi, short for Ayotzinapa, the name of the school the students attended), or “vivos se los llevaron, con vida los queremos” (alive they took them, alive we want them).

For months, dozens of activists have been living in an encampment on a sidewalk along one of the city’s main thoroughfares, Paseo de la Reforma. Decorated on all sides with portraits of each of the missing students and signage denouncing the country’s leadership, inhabitants vow not to leave until the students are located and the current regime is dismantled. They sleep in tents, and volunteers bring food, blankets and other supplies on a daily basis ...

More here: http://qz.com/511463/one-year-later-mexico-city-refuses-to-let-memory-of-the-43-missing-students-die/




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The Missing 43 (Original Post) TBF Sep 2015 OP
I am hoping they are in the United States yeoman6987 Sep 2015 #1
 

yeoman6987

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1. I am hoping they are in the United States
Sat Sep 26, 2015, 11:08 AM
Sep 2015

Perhaps their parents paid a mule to take them for safety. God I hope!!!!!!!!!!! And in the United States, I hope they are safe with an organization that is helping them get settled. Oh how I hope.


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