The disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa normalistas was possible because the Guerreros Unidos cartel maintained a cooptation network “that involved authorities from the three levels of government,” including elements of the Army and the Federal Police who are identified in the documents. messages that the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) intercepted, and that the Mexican federal government partially released on Tuesday.
In these messages provided by the DEA, the then colonel is linked to Guerreros Unidos. José Rodríguez Pérez; to the captain José Martínez Crespo; and the former colonel Rafael Hernandez Nieto, who not only “provided protection to the criminal group,” but also “they provided weapons and ammunition, (and) facilitated the transfer of drugs,” details the document titled “Ayotzinapa. Narrative of the events according to the investigation carried out.”
This information, officially released by the government of the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, It reiterates throughout 34 pages that the normalistas were executed and subsequently disappeared. That is, the federal authorities They are no longer carrying out a search on students’ lives, as established for this type of case by international human rights standards.
Likewise, in this narrative three hypotheses are proposed about the causes of the tragic events that occurred nine years ago in the municipality of Iguala, in the state of Guerrero, possibilities that are very similar to the so-called “historical truth” which was outlined by the then head of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic, Jesus Murillo Karam, in the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Dissolved in acid
The document details that, in DEA messages, The user “Vaquero Nuevo”, who has been identified as “El Gil” (Gildardo López Astudillo), informed “Silver” (Adán Zenén Casarrubias) “that they were going to arrest the municipal police officers and that they were concentrating them in the state police command.
This information denotes that all the actions of the federal authorities and the state of Guerrero, carried out after the disappearance of the young people as part of the initial investigation, were known to members of Guerreros Unidos.
Furthermore, it is revealed that on the same night of September 26, 2014, Army Captain José Martínez Crespo communicated with some of the hitmen who participated in the attack against the students.
“’Captain Crespo’ of the 27th Battalion by message mentions to ‘El Chino’ that: ‘two stupid students lying here on Alvarez corner are almost dead’ (sic). Which indicates his knowledge of the events that occurred and even his probable participation,” the report notes.
Regarding the fate of the normalistas, this official version states that “it is probable” that they have been separated “into at least three groups and that they have been taken to different places.” for its execution and disappearance.”
A subject who is identified with the nickname “Juan” reports that a group of students handed themselves over to “the Tilos,” who “To get rid of the bodies, they dissolved them in acid and put them in clandestine graves.”
According to the federal government, the different places to which the young people were taken are located in the municipalities of Cocula, Cuetzala del Progreso, Eduardo Neri, Huitzuco, Iguala, San Miguel Totolapan, Taxco, Teloloapan and Tepecoacuilco, the document details.
“There were four sides where they took the kids. “Peyton said he wasn’t going to take care of everyone,” the witness “Carla” told the Truth Commission in the Ayotzinap caseto, whose head is the Undersecretary of the Interior Alejandro Encinas.
Shots and cremation
Another message included in the narrative is that of Alejandro Macedo Barrera, alias “El Zorro,” who “mentioned having participated: “killing two Ayotzinapos,” shooting them in the head and they were not burned, they were killed by kneeling.”
For his part, another man identified as “Neto” mentioned that his boss “El Negro” gave him packages of black plastic bags, “which he took to the Uriostegui crematorium” and the “green oven.” The report does not specify where that oven would be located.
It is immediately mentioned that in a property known as the “Rancho de los Tilos”, located north of the municipality of Iguala, some of the young people were murdered “with a coup de grace in the head”, in addition to others being deprived of of life with beatings, “since they became very violent when they were kidnapped.”
Regarding these last students, it is added that “they used the excavator to bury them on the same ranch,” although they also “burned 7 of them on Chucky’s instructions.”
Causes like “historical truth”
The three possible causes why the students disappeared, outlined in this report, are similar to the “historical truth” that was developed Jesus Murillo Karam, former head of the Attorney General’s Office, who is in preventive detention accused of forced disappearance, torture, and crimes against the administration of justice, allegedly committed during the investigation of the Ayotzinapa case.
According to the current federal administration, the criminal group Guerreros Unidos had a confusion “regarding the alleged infiltration of (its rivals) “Los Rojos” among the students of Ayotzinapa, in the context of the dispute over the plaza in the Iguala region. .
The second hypothesis is that they wanted to give a lesson to the normalistas, “in a context of threats from Mayor José Luis Abarca and Guerreros Unidos, after the protests and destruction of the municipal palace of Iguala.”
Finally, the third and final approach that seeks to explain the disappearances is the transfer of narcotics, “and the possible presence of drugs, weapons or money on some of the buses taken” by the students.
It is worth clarifying that this entire document was rejected on Monday by the parents of the normalistas, because it incorporates new elements “closer to the historical truth” of Murillo Karam, according to Vidulfo Rosales, lawyer for the parents of the Ayotzinapa normalistas.
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Surya Palacios Journalist and lawyer, specialist in legal and human rights analysis. She has been a reporter, radio host and editor.