Moms of Missing Ayotzinapa Students Make Pilgrimage to Meet the Pope

The 43 students who were rounded up by police from the city of Iguala on September 26, 2014, studied there.

Deputy interior minister Roberto Campa said that the meeting between the president and the parents of the missing students is “complicated”, given that the issue also touches on Mexico’s thousands of people who have disappeared as well, the news outlet added. The first meeting, last October, ended with the parents complaining that Peña Nieto did not appear to understand the depth of their pain.

Among the families’ demands are a new internationally supervised investigation of the disappearances and an investigation of into those responsible for the initial inquiry, which the families believe was meant to mislead them.

The call for an investigation of the government’s investigators stems from the parents’ long-standing distrust of the official version of what happened to their children.

It concluded the bodies of 43 students could not have been burned at the rubbish dump in Cocula as the government maintained.

“What guarantee do we have that this new investigation won’t be more theater?” “As a representative of God, we ask him to support us and speak with the President to find our sons”.

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.

In a series of tweets sent from his account following the closed-door meeting, Peña Nieto was much less negative.

“It is important that the doors are opened so that they can be heard”, Cruz said during an interview with local media regarding the meeting with President Pena Nieto on Thursday from 13:00 local time (1800 GMT).

The working group said its six-month investigation found no evidence of the fire that the Mexican attorney general’s office says incinerated the students’ bodies. At their press conference, the parents rejected this as insufficient and too general for their purposes.

“We expect very little from this meeting because we know that the commitments that are signed are not honored”.

Tixtla de Guerrero (Mexico) (AFP) – Protesters angry at the disappearance of 43 students clashed with police and torched a truck in Mexico’s southern state of Guerrero Tuesday, days before the tragedy’s first anniversary.

The parents launched a 43-hour fast that began Wednesday and will end Saturday, the day that marks the one-year anniversary of the abductions.