the Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador denounced this Friday that there are “interests” behind the violent protests this week for the 43 disappeared students from Ayotzinapaa case that turns 8 on Monday without being resolved.
“I believe that there are interests that seek to confront us, to discredit the government because the members of Ayotzinapa, the parents of the young people, have been informed of everything we are doing, what happened is being clarified, punishing those responsible” ,
declared.
The president referred in his daily conference to the demonstrations for Ayotzinapa this week in Mexico City, where activists have vandalized the Israeli Embassy, blocked main streets and even injured a police officer in front of the Attorney General’s Office ( FGR).
The controversy over the disappearance of the 43 young people, which occurred on September 26, 2014 in the southern state of Guerrero, has been revived after the report presented in August by the Truth Commission, which concludes that it was a “state crime” and that there is no indication that they are alive.
But López Obrador, who promised to clarify the crime when he assumed power in 2018, argued that in the protests “they want to make the situation worse because there are always people who do not want the problems to be resolved because they live from the conflict.”
“Where is the non-violence, the peaceful civil resistance? Hooded, throwing stones, there is conservatism, or what usually happens, that the extremes touch, the extreme right and the extreme left. So of course I do not agree with these manifestations of violence”,
critical.
Rally at Military Camp Number 1
The activists and relatives of the 43 disappeared from Ayotzinapa they have planned this friday rally at Military Camp Number 1 in the Mexican capital due to accusations that the Government has covered up the participation of the Army.
“They want to continue arguing that human rights are being violated and I tell them: no, we are not the same. Also, if you protest, it has to be done peacefully,”
Lopez Obrador commented.
The Truth Commission has rejected the “historical truth”, the version of the Government of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) that stated that corrupt police officers detained the students and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos cartel, which murdered them and incinerated them in a garbage dump in Guerrero.
The López Obrador administration denied that version, agreeing with relatives and with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and its Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), which stated that the bodies could not be burned in that place.
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