Nine years after 43 Mexican students vanished, parents still seek answers
Nine years after 43 students from a rural teacher’s college in Mexico disappeared, two parents say they're still searching for answers.
Nine years after 43 students from a rural teacher’s college in Mexico disappeared, their parents find themselves in an uphill battle.
“It’s complicated. You’re looking for your son, and the government denies you justice,” Antonio Tizapa, the father of one of the missing students, said in an interview. “If they don’t want us to keep protesting in the streets, tell us where our children are.”
In July, a panel of independent investigators presented evidence in its sixth and last report about the 43 missing students. According to the multiyear investigation, Mexican security forces at the local, state and federal levels at the time “all collaborated to make them disappear.”
Antonio Tizapa at City University of New York in Manhattan in 2015.Claudia Torrens / AP fileMeanwhile, the remains of only three students have been formally identified in the last nine years.
On Sept. 26, 2014, Tizapa’s 20-year-old son, Jorge Antonio, traveled with dozens of classmates from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College to the city of Iguala in the southwestern state of Guerrero.
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