The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said he felt confident that before the end of his government The case of the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa normal students will be clarified.
“The searches continue, we have not stopped searching for a single day”Only one day (at 43) and the investigation continues and I am confident that in the time we have left we will know what happened and, above all, where the young people are,” said the Mexican president.
“I made a commitment to the parents that we were going to get to the bottom of it and we are going to do it.”And I have a year left and I am working on this, and that is why I also wanted the meeting with them yesterday, to inform them, and I want to give each one of them, each mother and each father, a file on Monday,” he stated.
From his morning conference at the National Palace, López Obrador insisted that the Mexican Army “has delivered all the information” about the students who disappeared on the night of September 26, 2014 in the southern state of Guerrero.
“We have been providing all the information, The Ministry of Defense has delivered all the informationbut parents insist that information is missing,” he said.
The Mexican president’s statements come after holding a meeting yesterday, Wednesday, September 20, with the parents of the missing students who went to the National Palace in the afternoon.
At the end of this meeting yesterday, Wednesday, Emiliano Navarrete, father of José Ángel Navarrete, stated that “the president has protected the Army a lot for a long time,” a situation that López Obrador denied.
“They maintain that, but the (Secretary of) Defense maintains that it has already provided all the information, and what I have been proposing since yesterday is a review of everything so that there is no doubt and it can be said: we already provided all the information, that is what we had. Either, in fact, other information needed to be provided, or there is no more,” López Obrador reiterated.
After showing several letters addressed to the Secretary of National Defense, Luis Crescencio Sandoval, where he asks him to get to the bottom of the investigations and arrest those allegedly responsible, the head of the Mexican executive announced that Next Monday, September 25, the Ministry of the Interior will deliver to the parents of the missing “a collection” of what has been investigated so far. “so as not to continue deepening differences” and “so that there is no misinformation.”
“We do not want these fakers, pseudo defenders of human rights, to be using this unfortunate matter to affect the Government and especially the Army,” he said.
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