For Families of Missing Mexican Students, Answers Elusive, But Search Isn't Over Whitney Eulich - The Christian Science Monitor
go to original March 29, 2015

Discontent over 43 missing students probe spawn massive protests in Mexico (RT America)

Six months after the grisly disappearance of 43 teachers' college students in the troubled Mexican state of Guerrero, friends and family of the missing spread out across the United States and Mexico to remind the world that the search isn’t over.

Marches took place throughout Mexico, and three caravans made up of the family and friends of the students and activists are traveling to at least 30 US cities to raise awareness about the case and ongoing disappearances here.

“Nothing will change if we stop fighting,” says Omar Garcia, who was with his classmates in Iguala before they disappeared on Sept. 26.

Mr. Garcia and a handful of other students were able to flee before his peers were taken by local police and handed over to a gang, according to government accounts. The gang then allegedly burned the bodies beyond DNA recognition. Six months later, only one student has been confirmed dead by investigators.

“This fight is for all Mexicans,” Garcia says by telephone from Saint Louis, Mo., where he’s traveling with the Caravana 43. “We are trying to take the problems of our country like corruption, government ties to drug cartels, and disappearances to a national and international level.”

Tens of thousands of people have disappeared in Mexico since 2006, leading to a wave of small-scale battles for truth and broader victim’s rights movements. But few have seen the sort of sustained action and awareness that exists now, observers say. Calling attention to suspected disappearances or kidnappings in Mexico can lead to the death or kidnapping of those searching for their missing loves ones.

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