Parents of missing Mexican students push for answers from López Obrador and Sheinbaum
The parents of the 43 missing Mexican students who were abducted and presumed killed want outgoing Pres. López Obrador to release more information on the state's collusion around the events and will push President-elect Sheinbaum.
Claudia Sheinbaum made history when she became the first woman and the first person of Jewish heritage to be elected president of Mexico. Among other things, she promised to keep the country on a path toward reform and justice.
But for the parents of 43 college students who were abducted in 2014, her promise will not be fulfilled until the Mexican government provides more answers and accountability from the military and law enforcement.
“When we meet her, we’ll make the same demand that we have already made to the current president,” Clemente Rodríguez, whose son, Christian Alfonso Rodríguez Telumbre, is one of the missing students, said by phone in Spanish from Mexico. “First, to get to the truth, we need access to the 800 pages of military records that have been requested.”
On Sept. 26, 2014, 43 male students from a teacher’s college in Ayotzinapa, in the state of Guerrero, were abducted as they were on a bus to a protest in Mexico City.
It has been nearly 10 years since the students were abducted in the state of Guerrero.Emilio Espejel / NurPhoto via Getty Images fileThe Mexican government initially tried to close the investigation, concluding that local authorities had colluded with drug traffickers in the murder and incineration of the students.
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