Hooded protesters, identified as members of the ‘Raúl Isidro Burgos’ Rural Teachers’ College in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, blocked toll booths on a section of the Mexico-Cuernavaca highway. They displayed messages criticizing the Mexican government for its failure to act regarding the disappearance of the 43 student teachers.
The Federal Roads and Bridges agency (CAPUFE) reported the closure of traffic on the Tlalpan elevated viaduct and at the toll plaza due to “the presence of protesters.”
The agency also advised the public to call the National Guard at 088, while more than 300 officers were deployed to the area alongside the Secretariat of Citizen Security, according to national media reports.
With the 12th anniversary of the disappearance of the 43 students in the municipality of Iguala approaching, protesters at various toll points claimed that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has dismissed the case.
They also expressed their support for the families of the missing, stating that the families “only want to find their children” and see “justice served regarding all the intellectual and material perpetrators of that crime.”
Using loudspeakers, they shouted slogans such as: “They were taken alive, we want them back alive!” Meanwhile, in the center of the Mexican capital, relatives of the 43 Ayotzinapa students also denounced the actions taken against the victims.
“They [the government] know what they did with our children, where they are… let them search for them alive, because they were taken alive and we want them back alive,” stated María Concepción, the mother of one of the missing students, during the protest.
Additionally, they accused Mexico City authorities of blocking the passage of 17 buses at the Tlalpan toll booth; the buses were transporting student teachers to a meeting with federal authorities where they intended to present their demands. The student blockades and demands from family members come a day after Mexico hosted the World Cup opener, amidst multiple protests led by the “searching mothers” of the more than 133,000 people missing in the country and by Mexican teachers from the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE).
Source: abcnoticias
