Despite the announcement of the president, Claudia Sheinbaum, that “progress” would be communicated in the investigation of the 43 normalist students of Ayotzinapa, the relatives have left the meeting in disappointed National Palace. The fathers and mothers of the missing say that there is no new information about what happened on the night of September 26, 2014 or who was behind the killing of their children. The president has stressed that analysis of telephone calls is being carried out during crime day and later days with a scientific team. However, this line of research has not yet paid. Meanwhile, Sheinbaum has promised the group to reinforce the Special Prosecutor’s Office investigating the case.
The president’s press conference fueled the hopes of advancing in the clarification of the crime. “Investigations, analysis are being carried out, which in our perspective and in the prosecutor’s perspective had not been carried out in depth in all these years,” he said. However, the lawyer who represents family members has assured at the exit of the appointment that there are no such advances, that the information that has been discussed was already known. “There was no answer we thought I was going to see,” he lamented and added that the group and government will meet again in November.
The meeting with Sheinbaum, in addition to talking about the advances of telephone research, has addressed the status of the extradition process from Israel de Tomás Zerón. The former director of the Criminal Investigation Agency of the Mexican Prosecutor’s Office is accused of forced disappearance, financial crimes and torture to a detainee of the Ayotzinapa case. The meeting has also been discussed extraditions of other care officials in the United States related to crime. The return of the group of independent experts who has investigated the case in parallel to the authorities and that encountered the wall of the Armed Forces has also been claimed.
The new prosecutor at the head of the case, Mauricio Pazarán, turns only seven weeks since Rosendo Gómez Piedra was announced, who had led the investigations since 2022. Then, Sheinbaum promised to announce the change of leadership in the investigations that would open “new roads” in the investigation that has been stagnant years despite the two changes of government, the different theories and the pressure Despair some information that aluminates what happened on the night of the disappearance. The president said that scientific analysis of telephone calls were being carried out that appeared in the research folders and that, for some reason, they were not studied in depth previously.
Those analysis, of which the president has preferred not to give official details and that seemed promising, have not paid off. “They have to have their secrecy. You cannot give all the information because it is precisely in the process of investigation, but new elements are being given that at the time had not been considered,” the president added.
This is the first meeting with the presidency that families have after the lawyer who has accompanied them during the last 11 years, Vidulfo Rosales, resigned on August 21. Rosales published that he left the case and the Human Rights Center of the Tlachinollan mountain to join the team of Hugo Aguilar Ortiz as president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, who has just taken the protest of the position. For this meeting with the president, they were accompanied by the lawyer of the center of Tlachinollan, Isidoro Vicario Aguilar, who worked in the case with Rosales from the beginning and that is in charge of the civil organization. The meeting was also attended by advisors to civil societies and for human rights, Serapaz and Centro Prodh.
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