Relatives of 43 Missing Mexican Students Embark on US Tour to Build Support Brianna Lee - IBTimes
go to original March 17, 2015

Relatives hold up posters of some of the 43 missing students from the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College during a protest march to demand justice for the students, in Mexico City March 10, 2015. (Reuters/Henry Romero)

Mexico’s government already has ended its investigation into the disappearance of 43 students who were allegedly killed last fall by a criminal group working with local police. But the students’ families haven’t curbed their demands for justice – and now they’re taking their campaign on the road through the United States.

Sixteen activists and relatives of the disappeared are embarking on a tour of 30 U.S. cities to draw attention to organized crime and impunity in Mexico in light of the disappearances. They are traveling in three caravans that will take separate routes north through the U.S. – one along the Pacific Coast, another through central states, and a third along the Atlantic Coast. The caravans eventually will unite in Washington, D.C., and end the tour in New York City.

“We need to inform Mexican society and the world [of] the hell we live in, the anguish of not knowing where our children are,” the “Caravana 43” group wrote on a website dedicated to the campaign.

But in addition to spreading awareness about the disappearances, the activists also are lobbying for a U.S.-based movement to halt the sale of arms to Mexican authorities. “We ask [the U.S.] to write letters to their legislative bodies and to tell Obama to stop supporting the sale of weapons to Mexico because they are used to kill our children,” the statement continued.

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