Dozens of people demonstrated against the disappearance of 43 students from a school for primary teachers in the city of Ayodhya in 2014.
Dozens of people broke down the doors of the presidential palace in the country's capital on Wednesday to protest the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from a school for primary teachers in the southwestern Mexican city of Ayodhya.
Footage from Mexico City's Milenio television showed protesters using a truck to push open the door before entering the presidential palace, with some of the attendees covering their faces as the president held his regular daily press conference. Office Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The Mexican president condemned the “provocation”, which was attended by family members of the students, and the election campaign began last Friday to appoint his successor on June 2.
Commenting on the protests, he said during a press conference, “This is a movement against us.”
“They wanted us to respond with violence. We are not going to do that because we are not oppressors”, he continued. “We will fix the door, no problem”, he promised.
Incumbent Claudia Sheinbaum, the favorite in the presidential race, is driven by the popularity of the outgoing president, who, according to the constitution, cannot run again after a six-year term.
López Obrador promised that the protesters would be welcomed by a representative of the Interior Ministry. He also opined that the lawyers and activists who accompanied the missing youth's next of kin were motivated by “political motives”.
In 2022, the Commission of Access to Truth and Justice, created in 2018 by the current president who promised to clarify these events and find the youth, the criminal group Guerreros Unitos involved in the disappearance of students, in addition. “Officials of various state and federal agencies,” he defined as “state crime.”
The commission alleged “neglect and negligence by federal and state officials at the highest levels” and “distortion of facts and circumstances” to establish a decision “out of touch with reality.”
At the time, the government's undersecretary for human rights, Alejandro Encinas, admitted there was “no evidence” that any of the students were alive.
On September 26, 2014, students from the Escola Normal Rural Raul Isidro Burgos in Ayotzinaba disappeared in the state of Guerrero (southwest) of Iguala, where they were preparing to take a bus to Mexico City to participate in a demonstration. Embassy of then conservative President Henrique Peña Nieto.
The official version is that the students were taken by the police and handed over to the Guerreros Unitos drug gang, who murdered them.
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