Government Agrees to Advisers to Monitor Ayotzinapa Missing Students Investigation Arturo Conde - NBC Latino
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Demonstrators sit next to a graffiti during a protest against the visit to Argentina by Mexico's President Pena Nieto in Buenos Aires, Argentina last week. (Marcos Brindicci/Reuters)

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) helped broker a deal between the families of 43 missing teachers' college students and the Mexican government that will send technical advisers back to Mexico in August to monitor the ongoing investigation.

This decision comes just three months after the Mexican government declined to extend the contract for the panel of international investigators who worked for the human rights watchdog and presented key evidence that exposed how suspects in the case had been tortured for testimonies.

The technical advisers also bring new hope to the parents of the missing students who for one year and ten months have been demanding answers to what happened to their sons.

"Since September 26 [2014] our lives have stopped," said Mario César González Contreras, father of the 21-year-old missing student César Manuel González Hernández. "My wife and I left our jobs to move to the school. And we are still there searching for our son and his classmates."

Almost two years later, the 43 students are now symbols of Mexico's hope for social justice — galvanizing thousands of people across the county and abroad to stand up for human rights.

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