They had gone there to gather for a commemoration in Mexico city.
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It was only the parents’ second meeting with Pena Nieto since last year’s mass disappearance, which has turned into the biggest crisis of his administration and caused his approval rating to dip.
Portraits of some of the 43 missing teacher’s college students are depicted on an Amnesty global billboard erected inside a protest camp where relatives were rallying, in the Zocalo, Mexico City’s main square, Wednesday, September 23, 2015. News reported. On Saturday, the parents and other students from their teacher college will hold a protest in Mexico City to observe the one-year anniversary of their disappearance.
Five mothers of the missing Ayotzinapa, Mexico students have trekked almost 2,000 miles to follow Pope Francis’ 6-day US tour in the hopes of meeting and urging him to support their mission of finding the 43 children, NBC News reports.
President Enrique Pena Nieto was presented with a list of eight demands, including the creation of an independent investigation committee supervised by global experts in an attempt to be “on the side of the truth, not on the side of lies”, according to the parents.
“The president made it very clear that the investigation remains open, it was never closed, it will not be shelved”, Sanchez said. “You and I are looking for the same thing”.
“What guarantee do we have that this new investigation won’t be more theater?”
A massive protest is scheduled for the occasion in Mexico City. “We’re not going to give up; we’re going to continue searching”.
De la Cruz said the parents would ask Pena Nieto that their sons be found alive, that the army be investigated for any possible role in the case, and that the commission experts be allowed to stay in Mexico until the case is solved.
The parents are scheduled to meet President Enrique Pena Nieto, where they will hand over petitions “dealing with the matter of justice and the report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)”, Rosales said.
Yet last week the country’s attorney general announced that a second student had been identified in remains sent for analysis to forensic specialists in Innsbruck, Austria.
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The cops handed over the students to cartel gunmen, who killed the young people and burned their bodies to ashes at a garbage dump in the nearby town of Cocula, according to the official story. Sanchez confirmed Thursday that global experts would be involved in a third investigation of the alleged incineration site.
