Experts Say Government Banned Investigation to Find Ayotzinapa Missing Students Janel Saldana - Latin Times
go to original June 3, 2016

A group of experts who investigated the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico have said goodbye to the group's families. (Al Jazeera English)

It’s been almost two years since the 43 students from Ayotzinapa mysteriously disappeared in the state of Guerrero.

“With firm determination, the Mexican government will maintain its efforts to obtain total clarity about the facts,” said Mexico’s president Enrique Peña Nieto during a press conference in November 2014.

He continued, “The capture of the intellectual authors is not enough, we will detain everyone who participated in these abominable crimes. To the parents of the missing students and the Mexican society altogether, I assure you, that I will not stop until justice prevails.”

During a recent interview with Jorge Ramos on “Al Punto,” Claudia Paz and Francisco Cox, members of the Grupo Interdisciplinario de Expertos Independientes (GIEI), revealed that the Mexican government was a huge obstacle during their investigation about the happenings.

“Unfortunately, there was no political effort to give us full access to the sources,” said Paz. “We had no access to the people being accused in the case. This was very important in order to be able to dig deeper, and come up with possible conclusions about the whereabouts of the students.”

Official reports about the investigation suggested that the victims were incinerated and their ashes were thrown into the river. GIEI investigators, however, say that information is false.

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