Lawyers for the military officers imprisoned for the 2014 disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students have filed a criminal complaint against the Undersecretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration of the Ministry of the Interior, Alejandro Encinas.
«It means that we are doing well because Alejandro has all our support and they did not like what was done in the first stage,» said Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador about the complaint, as reported by the newspaper ‘La Jornada’.
López Obrador pointed to this case in a press conference as proof of the change in his administration to put an end to structures where «all interests prevailed except the interest of the people».
«That’s why I’m even glad about the march because it means that this is moving and there is debate and there is democracy because there is plurality and we don’t all think in the same way, of differences,» he argued.
The 43 students of the Normal School of Ayotzinapa, in the state of Guerrero, disappeared in the early hours of September 27, 2014 in the neighboring municipality of Iguala during a protest against local authorities.
The first official version was that they were caught by the criminal organization Los Rojos, as part of a settling of scores between rival groups, and that hitmen killed and incinerated them and disposed of their remains in the Cocula landfill, facts later refuted by a new investigation.
In September 2020, a last investigation by the Attorney General’s Office contemplated the negligence and irregularities committed by the authorities of the former government of former President Peña Nieto. This new investigation points to the fact that the youths were chased and killed by municipal police.
