Families Demand Mexico Release 853 Military Pages on 43 Missing Students as Thousands March After 12 Years
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Updated · CBC Sports · Sep 28
Families Demand Mexico Release 853 Military Pages on 43 Missing Students as Thousands March After 12 Years
3 articles · Updated · CBC Sports · Sep 28
Summary
Thousands of protesters marched to Mexico’s National Palace on Saturday as families of the 43 Ayotzinapa students demanded full disclosure of the military’s role in the 2014 disappearances.
A March federal court order required the army to release more than 853 pages of intelligence records, but the families’ lawyer said the military still has not complied.
The pressure comes before President Claudia Sheinbaum’s government is due to issue an investigation update on Monday, after arresting former Guerrero governor Ángel Aguirre in August and seeking two U.S.-based suspects.
The case’s original “historical truth” — that police handed the students to a gang that burned their bodies at a dump — was later discredited by independent experts and a 2018 court ruling citing torture-tainted confessions.
A 2022 expert report said the military had infiltrated the college, monitored both the students and Guerreros Unidos, and tracked the violence in real time, keeping the army at the center of families’ demands for answers.