Parents Hold Press Conference, #Ayotzinapa Solidarity Actions to Continue Television del Sur
go to original December 18, 2014

No vacation break for Ayotzinapa protests. Clayton Conn reports from Mexico City. (teleSUR English)

The family members of the 43 disappeared students Wednesday accused Mexico's Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam of covering up the participation of the Mexican army and federal police in the deaths and enforced disappearances of the students.

During a press conference, they reiterated their demand for a direct investigation of all police and military forces involved, as well as organized crime groups.

Family spokesman Felipe de la Cruz said that the authorities want people to forget about the State crimes committed here, as often happens, but he said that “in this case, the army, federal police, Iguala local police, ex Governor Angel Aguirre, and the President of Mexico himself have to own up to what really happened in Iguala.”

De la Cruz and other parents accused Enrique Peña Nieto's government of using an '”iron fist” strategy through physical attacks on demonstrators and reports filtered to the press by Mexico's Intelligence Agency (CISEN) that their lawyer Abel Barrera of the Tlachinollan Center is involved with guerrilla groups. They also denied that they themselves are being manipulated, as stated last week by Mexican Secretary of the Navy Vidal Soberon.

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