Almost No Progress in Investigation, Missing Mexican Students' Families Say Agencia EFE
go to original July 15, 2016

Mexico's striking teachers joined the Ayotzinapa families outside Mexico's Attorney General's office to demand justice for the disappeared 43 students. (teleSUR English)

Relatives of the education students who disappeared in southern Mexico in 2014 said "minimal advances" had been made in the investigation even as the federal government reaffirmed its commitment to finding out what happened to the 43 young people.

Family members met on this week with Attorney General Arely Gomez and Government Secretariat Undersecretary for Human Rights Roberto Campa to discuss the case.

"Minimal advances have been made in the investigation," Vidulfo Rosales, an attorney representing the families, said.

Iguala municipal police officers fired gunshots at students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School, a nearby teacher-training facility, on the night of Sept. 26, 2014, Mexican officials say.

Six people died that night, 25 others were wounded and 43 students were detained by police and then handed over to members of the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel.

The official version of events is that the Guerreros Unidos cartel murdered the students and cremated the remains at the dump in Cocula in an enormous fire that burned for hours.

Human rights groups have questioned the official version, including a report released earlier this year by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, or IACHR, Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts, who worked for months on the case and criticized serious flaws in the investigation.

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