Ayotzinapa Students
Title: World News #75 – Justice for the 43 Ayotzinapa Students
Created: 2022
Medium: Graphic Design
Software: Adobe Illustrator CC
Dimensions: 36″x48″
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“The disappearance of 43 Mexican students after they were ambushed by police officers in 2014 was a state-sponsored crime involving federal and state authorities at the highest levels of government, according to the final report of a government truth commission.
The commission, created by the current administration, confirmed that the federal government, including the Mexican military and federal police, were aware of the students’ movements from the time they left their rural school campus in the state of Guerrero to their arrival in the city of Iguala where the students were abducted the night of 24 September.
Local law enforcement officials then worked in conjunction with a large group of cartel gunmen and lookouts to forcibly disappear the students, the report confirmed.
“There is no evidence that they are alive,” said the deputy director of Mexico’s Human Rights Commission, Alejandro Encinas of the missing students. “To the contrary, all testimony and evidence suggest they were cunningly killed and disappeared.””
– The Guardian, Mexican students’ disappearance was a state-sponsored crime, truth panel says.
“Christian was last seen alive in September 2014, when he and other student teachers from the Ayotzinapa rural teachers’ college in southern Mexico commandeered a fleet of buses to take them to a demonstration in the capital.
Hours later, the 43 students were ambushed and abducted by local police working alongside a local cartel called Guerreros Unidos. Most of them vanished entirely, in one of the most notorious and baffling atrocities in Mexico’s blood-soaked recent history.”
– The Guardian, Can Mexico’s 43 missing students get justice at last – or will politics prevail?.
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