Sheinbaum calls a meeting with parents of Ayotzinapa on December 4

Relatives of the 43 students who disappeared in Ayotzinapa (Guerrero, southern Mexico) reported that they were summoned to a meeting with President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday, December 4, to follow up on the case.

Through a trade, The government summoned the fathers, mothers and representatives of the normalistas at 1:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. GMT) in the Guillermo Prieto room of the Executive enclosure, according to the first reports.

This will be Sheinbaum’s first meeting as president with the relatives of the 43, after 10 years without justice, after former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024) delegated the case to her after failing to keep his promise to resolve it, despite having used it as a campaign flag.

Their last meeting was on July 29when the then-elected president promised to design a route upon assuming the presidency on October 1, as reported by the spokesperson and lawyer in the case, Vidulfo Rosales, upon leaving the meeting.

The next meeting, scheduled for 11 days, follows the arrest this Friday of Alejandro Benítez Palacios, alias ‘El Cholo’ Palacios, who was allegedly the leader of the Guerreros Unidos criminal group 10 years ago, when the normalistas disappeared.

However, since 2021, parents and relatives have warned of stagnation in the case due to cover-up by the Army, key to the disappearance of the young people, but that López Obrador refused to pursue.

The Ayotzinapa case occurred during the night of September 26, 2014, when 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural School disappeared while they were heading to Mexico City to demonstrate on the anniversary of the Tlatelolco massacre, which occurred on October 2, 1968.

The Truth Commission created by the López Obrador government concluded in 2022 that the disappearance of the 43 was a “state crime” with the participation of authorities at all levels, including the Armed Forces.

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