Mexican officials have begun scouring new sites for the remains of 43 student te...
MEXICO CITY - Mexican officials have begun scouring new sites for the remains of 43 student teachers who disappeared five years ago, after authorities said they would start the investigation from scratch, having discarded the results of a previous one.
Pressure has been growing on Pena Nieto’s successor, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, to fulfill his promises to uncover what really happened in a case that many Mexicans link to federal authorities. Mexico’s undersecretary for human rights, Alejandro Encinas, spoke of the site in comments to reporters at a regular news conference on Thursday flanked by Lopez Obrador.
“We are convinced that in the Ayotzinapa case, the only truth until now is that there is no truth,” said Encinas. Ayotzinapa is where the students’ all-male college is located. The government on Thursday reiterated an offer of rewards of 1,500,000 pesos per student for any credible information about the case.Lopez Obrador took office in December pledging to pursue the Ayotzinapa investigation. His government has described the original probe as “discredited” and vowed to go after the officials who led it.
Lopez Obrador said in December that military officials should be put under scrutiny in relation to the case, but it is not clear how that aspect of the probe has advanced so far.According to the Pena Nieto administration, local drug gang Guerreros Unidos mistook the students for members of a rival outfit, killed them, incinerated their bodies in a nearby garbage dump and tipped their remains into a river.
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