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Nine years after the disappearance of students, seven young people were kidnapped in Mexico

A group of investigators assures that the Army allowed the attack on the students, covered it up and then did not provide truthful information about what happened. Meanwhile, in the state of Zacatecas, seven boys between 14 and 18 years old were kidnapped while they slept.

  • 02/10/2023 • 21:31

This Tuesday, Mexico will commemorate nine years since the disappearance of 43 students in Ayotzinapa, state of Guerrero, with street marches planned for the day and in a climate of complaints from relatives due to the lack of official answers about what happened, while in the state of Zacatecas, in the north-central region of the country, another seven young people were kidnapped in the last few hours, official sources reported. Relatives of the 43 young people who disappeared in 2014 indicated on Monday night that they did not receive any information about the investigation carried out by the Government of Andrés López Obrador, who personally and in front of the relatives themselves assured that his administration is not going to hide evidence that would incriminate to military in the case. "In the report of the Secretary of National Defense there is nothing, there is no response, neither the president nor he, there is a response to the information that the parents requested," Vidulfo Rosales, lawyer for the parents of the family, told the press. the 43 young people from the Ayotzinapa rural normal school, after a meeting with government representatives, was reproduced by the AFP news agency. Rosales added that the investigation by the López Obrador Government is closer to "the historical truth", as the investigation into the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) was called, which pointed out that the students were detained by police. in complicity with drug traffickers, who confused them with members of a rival cartel. "He says that the students were infiltrated, that it was a dispute between the sides of organized crime, totally reducing responsibility to organized crime and to a merely local aspect, leaving aside the Army," said Rosales.