Families of Mexico's 43 disappeared students demand truth and justice 11 years later
Source: Associated Press
Families of Mexico’s 43 disappeared students demand truth and justice 11 years later
By MARÍA VERZA
Updated 8:17 PM EDT, September 26, 2025
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The words “truth and justice” rang out from crowds of protesters flooding a central boulevard in Mexico City on Friday, just as they have every Sept. 26 since the disappearance of 43 Mexican students that shook the country in 2014.
Friday’s protest came exactly 11 years after students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in the southern state of Guerrero vanished in 2014. Authorities believe the students were abducted in the town of Iguala as they traveled by bus to Mexico City for a protest and killed by members of a criminal cartel with ties to government and military officials.
The case has fueled deep distrust of authorities because of a government cover-up that followed by investigators who created a parallel version of events. Despite dozens of people – including a former attorney general, local officials, military and police officers – being arrested in connection with the case, no one has ever been convicted.
Because of that, the case has become a symbol for ongoing corruption, cartel violence and the plight of the more than 133,000 disappeared people in Mexico. The number 43 and the faces of the students continue to dot the country’s capital in monuments and graffiti as a constant reminder of one the greatest crimes in Mexico’s modern history.
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