The new version of the events in which the 43 normalista students from Ayotzinapa disappeared -in 2014-, which was released last August, is not entirely accurate, because some of the evidence with which this explanation was elaborated is not valid, and could even be false, According to Alejandro Encinas, head of the Truth Commission in this case.
In an interview with the American daily The New York Times, the also undersecretary of the Interior admitted that “there is an important percentage, very important, that is all invalidated”. Specifically, it is about dozens of screenshots of telephone messages whose veracity is not verifiable.
“There are some (messages) that we have discarded”, Encinas told the New York newspaper, “they don’t have enough elements to prove themselves,” since “100 percent certainty in this does not exist.”
Those elements now questioned are 55 relevant events that do not coincide with other sources, but there are other 99 matching tests, Alejandro Encinas clarified this Thursday, when attending the morning conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Asked about the falsity of the phone chats that were included in the last report of the Commission for the Truth of the Ayotzinapa Case, Vidulfo Rosales, lawyer for the parents of the disappeared students, told HIGH LEVEL that nothing in the new version of the case is taken for granted.
“We continue in this uncertainty, (…) from the beginning we said: This is a technical test subject to verification, subject to a scientific assessment, and in that assessment we are, that is We never took that for granted that it was true.” the litigant emphasized.
The problem with the screenshots of telephone chats, in which alleged assassins of the Guerreros Unidos criminal group give an account of the participation of elements of the Army in the disappearance of some students, is that they are only images, since they do not exist -nor Is there a way to check- the metadata of those exchanges.
In this regard, Alejandro Encinos pointed out this Thursday that his report must be analyzed comprehensively, and although said tests are not valid, if the report is read as a whole, the other elements included in it “are consistent.”
In this vein, Vidulfo Rosales assured that the parents of the normalistas are waiting for a new report from the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, who are analyzing “the scientific technical information” of said evidence.
Another invented truth?
In order to distinguish itself from the so-called “historical truth” of the Ayotzinapa case, which emerged during the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto, and put forward by Jesus Murillo Karam, then head of the now extinct Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), Alejandro Encinas released a new account of the events in Augustwhich would explain what really happened with the normalistas.
The “historical truth” of Murillo Karam arrested today, pointed out that the Ayotzinapa students were intercepted by police from the municipalities of Iguala and Cocula, in Guerrero. Later, the gendarmes would have handed them over to assassins of the Guerreros Unidos criminal group, who later deprived the normalistas of their lives.
After the homicides, according to the same former prosecutor, the criminals would have burned the bodies of the young people in the Cocula garbage dump, while the charred remains would have been thrown in garbage bags into the San Juan River.
That version, according to Encinas, is completely false, in reality, according to the Undersecretary of the Interior, the 43 students were never together at any time. Neither were their bodies burned in the said garbage dump, nor were their ashes thrown into the San Juan River.
The new report of the Commission for Truth and Access to Justice of the Ayotzinapa Case affirms that the normalistas were detained in separate groups, and in that same condition distributed among the assassins of Guerreros Unidos. They would have deprived the students of their lives in different places in the municipalities of Iguala, Colula and Huitzucoto later hide -and dispose of- the remains in various ways and in various places.
That report also affirms that elements of the Army, the Navy, and the Federal Police participated in the facts of this case, along with criminals, and municipal and Guerrero state corporations.
However, questioning the veracity of the evidence on which the new version is based, In fact, it is still not certain what happened to the students. of the Normal Isidro Burgos of Ayotzinapa. Precisely because of this uncertainty, and because more information is lacking, the exact whereabouts of most of the young people have not been known, nor has it been possible to find their remains.
AMLO blames the former prosecutor
With all the above, it is clear that the Ayotzinapa case is more entangled than ever: As with the version of the PGR in the administration of Peña Nieto, what was said by the current authorities is not reflected in the evidence or in the criminal proceedings, since the annoyance of the Army for the statement that some of its elements participated in the disappearances.
To this is added that this Thursday President Andrés Manuel López Obrador implicitly blamed the former special prosecutor in the case, Omar Gómez Trejo, who resigned at the end of September, of having tried to “dynamite” the new investigations by the Truth Commission to the Ayotzinapa Case.
“There is talk of thirty involved and 80 arrest warrants are cancelled, I maintain here, I have said it, that They wanted to blow up our investigation so that we would not act,” the president pointed out.
López Obrador added that “without taking into account the report (by Alejandro Encinas), they added more responsible people thinking that with that we would no longer be able to make the decision, because if instead of six soldiers there were 20, then we would no longer go to be able to act”.
The truth is With these statements, the president shows ignorance and further confuses the case, because 80 arrest warrants were not cancelled, but only 21. Those warrants were requested by Omar Gómez Trejo, who was in charge of the Special Investigation and Litigation Unit for the Ayotzinapa case of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR).
The abandonment before a judge of those 21 arrest warrants was carried out by personnel from the FGR itself, without taking Gómez Trejo into account, precisely for that reason he presented his resignation.
Thus, eight years after the events of Ayotzinapa, the only thing certain is that the students are still missing, the product of a state crimedue to the involvement of public officials from all levels of the Mexican government.
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Surya Palacios Journalist and lawyer, specialist in legal analysis and human rights. She has been a reporter, radio host and editor.