Missing Mexican Students' Loved Ones Tour Europe to Push for New Investigation Shyamantha Asokan - BuzzFeed News
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The EuroCaravana 43 - the solidarity tour - arrived in London for the final stop of their month-long tour of Europe speaking about their experience of a brutal police attack in which 43 Ayotzinapa students were disappeared last September. U.K.-based Mexican solidarity groups greeted the caravan and turned heads in the busy central London station as the trio arrived with the resounding call “Ayotzinapa vive, la lucha sigue!” (Ayotzinapa lives, the fight continues). Shown are caravan members Eleucadio Ortega (left), Omar Garcia (third from left), Roman Hernandez (fourth from left). (Jen Wilton/teleSUR)

Forty-three Mexican students went missing after a confrontation with police last September, in a case that shocked the country. Their families have since held a stream of protests to oppose the government’s handling of the case.

The father of one of the students, a classmate of the group, and a local human rights activist have recently expanded their protest — they’ve spent a month touring Europe to get support. They reached London on Tuesday and are due to hold a rally tonight.

“We came here because we’ve tried everything already in Mexico, and we’ll keep trying, but the Mexican government have not responded well to us seeking justice for our kids,” Eleucadio Ortega, the father of one of the students, told BuzzFeed News.

...The three-man group — part of a movement called Caravana 43 — have visited 12 countries over the last month. In each country, they met civil society groups who they hope will now lobby their governments to put pressure on Mexico.

The trio is demanding that Mexico’s government return the students alive to their families, and also work to halt the country’s wider problem of forced disappearances. London is the last stop on their trip. Another group of relatives in Caravana 43 visited the U.S. earlier this spring.

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