Ayotzinapa: meetings for this six-year term are concluded

Parents of the 43 Ayotzinapa students decided to end meetings with the President of the Republic for the remainder of the six-year term, although they agreed to accept a meeting in the event of important news.

At night, the federal government issued a statement in which it was announced that the head of the Executive guaranteed to the relatives that the search for the students will continue until the last day of his administration, September 30, and that no further action will be taken. shelving to the case.

Sources who attended the meeting confirmed that it was held on good terms. However, the parents spoke of disagreements and a virtual break-up.

In the bulletin, the López Obrador administration detailed that to break the pact of silence 19 people have been interviewed, some of them interested in participating as new informants, in order to to obtain information that would allow the whereabouts of members of a criminal group who were released for alleged torture and that could provide information about the boys’ whereabouts.

At the meeting, said Vidulfo Rosales, representative of the families of the normalistas, federal officials reported two new arrests, one relevantthat of Marco Antonio Rios Berber, The Pompi, former member of United Warriors. If you pull that thread in the investigation, it can lead us to important data.the lawyer said.

The parents of the students considered that in the last stage of this government there was a defense Army officer and a mistreatment towards its movement.

Now, they said, their hopes for truth and justice for the crimes committed between September 26 and 27, 2014 in Iguala, Guerrero, rest with the future president, Claudia Sheinbaum.

We’d better wait for the next government. Why wear ourselves out? Let’s hope that with the new administration the dialogue can be reestablished and redirected.Rosales said upon leaving the National Palace.

He said that in the recent talks with López Obrador, some differences were evident. “The parents were very clear in saying: ‘it makes no sense to come and confront us when we are not having substantial results.’”

He said that the president himself acknowledged these disagreements and accepted that there will be no new rapprochement, so if there is no relevant information during the remainder of his administration, he will deliver a final report at the end of September.

In his assessment, Rosales considered that although in the first three years of this government there were clear will In 2022, the situation changed. “It was when we touched the sensitive fibers of the Mexican Army; we could no longer move forward, there came a breakdown, a crisis, even in the relationship, in the dialogue (…) This government unfortunately could not give us truth and justice.”

The virtual breakup occurred a month before the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of the students and a few weeks before the end of López Obrador’s six-year term, who promised to resolve the case before the end of his term.

Meanwhile, the government’s statement says that the head of the Executive reaffirmed at the meeting that his administration’s commitment is to find the young people, find out the truth and do justice.

If there were any matter of interest, he added, the president would call for a new meeting. Although no reference was made to the virtual break-up or the arrest of The Pompi.

The Undersecretary for Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior and president of the Commission for Truth and Access to Justice in the Ayotzinapa case (Covaj), Arturo Medina, stated that between July and August two inspections and searches were carried out at the 27th Infantry Battalion, located in Iguala (which were unknown to the majority of the parents).

He added that work is underway to obtain the extraditions of Tomás Zerón, former head of the Criminal Investigation Agency, and José Ulises Bernabé, a judge who, according to testimonies, was with a group of missing youths and now has asylum in the United States.

Peña, mixed visions

Given the recent controversy that arose because Zerón told Alejandro Encinas, former president of Covaj, that the historical truth It was built in meetings at Los Pinos headed by former President Enrique Peña Nieto, the families’ lawyer said that there are elements to summon the former president to testify.

The special prosecutor for the case, Rosendo Gómez, warned that Zerón’s statements are just an expression of a person who is involved and who is running awaywhich is not enough to quote Peña.