President Enrique Pena Nieto Meets with Parents of 43 Missing Students Agence France-Presse
go to original September 24, 2015

'Ayotzinapa 43' Parents Begin Hunger Strike in Mexico City (Ruptly TV)

The parents of 43 Mexican students who disappeared last year met with President Enrique Pena Nieto on Thursday to demand that authorities solve a case that has bedeviled his administration.

The parents arrived for the meeting in a Mexico City museum some 18 hours into a 43-hour fast that they launched ahead of Saturday's first anniversary of the mass disappearance.

It was only the second meeting between the parents and Pena Nieto since last year's tragedy, which has turned into the biggest crisis of his administration and caused his approval rating to dip.

They last met in October.

"We expect very little from this meeting because we know that the commitments that are signed are not honored. But we don't have another choice," Felipe de la Cruz, the spokesman for the parents, told AFP before the talks.

The students, from a rural teacher college in the southern state of Guerrero, disappeared after they were attacked by local police in the city of Iguala on Sept 26, 2014.

Read the rest at The Straits Times

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