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Action Days in NYC
With a vigil in front of the consulate of Mexico in New York on the 25th, a peaceful march with artistic expressions in front of the United Nations and a free race on the 29th in Prospect Park, the Mexican community will make its indignation resound against the absolute impunity with which the government of Enrique Peña Nieto has covered up this crime during these long four years. The march takes place on the second day of debates of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in which representatives of the government of Mexico will be present.
On September 26, 2014, the students of the school for elementary teachers Raúl Isidro Burgos of Ayotzinapa, Guerrero State, Mexico, commanded a truck in which, without them knowing it, the drug traffickers of the “Guerreros Unidos” Cartel had hidden tons of heroin, of an approximate value of two million dollars, headed to Chicago, as reported by professional journalists, documents, investigators, witnesses and telephone communications intercepted by the DEA. In order to recover the drug, these students were arrested in the city of Iguala, attacked, kidnapped and disappeared by the local police, in complicity with the mayor of the city of Iguala, José Luis Abarca and members of the Mexican Army, in collusion with the organized crime, according the book “La verdadera noche de Iguala” by journalist Anabel Herrera. However, the government of Enrique Peña Nieto gave another version, wrongly called "historical,” by which the students were handed over by the local police to the drug traffickers, who burned their bodies in the Cocula landfill.
The government's version has been denied by a group of investigators convened at the initiative of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, who found it "scientifically impossible" that the students had been incinerated in a garbage dump.
In the confrontation of Iguala six people died and 43 students were disappeared. Since then, the parents of these students look for their children and demand to the government to bring them back alive.
One of the parents of the disappeared students, Mr. Antonio Tizapa, lives in NYC. He is an immigrant worker who hasn’t stopped looking for his son and demanding the Mexican government to make justice. He is a victim of the Mexican government in more than one sense: as a victim of organized crime colluded with the government, looking for his missing son, and as an immigrant who opted for the economic exodus after the Free Trade Agreement that was signed without the consensus of the people. Since then, he has worked in the United States to help his family in Mexico financially.
Ever since his son disappeared, Mr. Antonio Tizapa has formed an international amateur sports group of runners, called Running for Ayotzinapa 43, to make visible the invisible victims by wearing the Ayotzinapa t-shirt in international marathons. He started running the famous New York marathon. So many runners joined him wearing the t-shirt, that now the flag of Mexico in the marathon of this great city is practically symbolized by the shirt of Ayotzinapa. Also, from different cities in the United States and the world, from Paris to Havana, the people in solidarity with the cause of Ayotzinapa and eager to end the impunity of the government in Mexico are now the shirt. They have decided to put their heart and sweat to find the 43 and thousands more.
Don Antonio Tizapa and his supporters from the Mexican community him invite the residents of New York, human rights, civil and religious groups, to participate this September 26 in the march that will begin at the United Nations where government officials from Mexico will be participating in the General Assembly. They are also invited to join their creative and sporting indignation in any of the three events that will take place later this month.
OTHER EVENTS
Contact:
Antonio Tizapa (347) 451-7542
tizapa79@gmail.com
Ayotzinapa 4 Years
Show your solidarity with the creative Mexican indignation!
Mexican community
members in NYC invite you to participate in three creative and sports events to
make the voice of parents and mothers of the 43 Ayotzinapa disappeared students
resonate, marking four years of the tragic events
With a vigil in front of the consulate of Mexico in New York on the 25th, a peaceful march with artistic expressions in front of the United Nations and a free race on the 29th in Prospect Park, the Mexican community will make its indignation resound against the absolute impunity with which the government of Enrique Peña Nieto has covered up this crime during these long four years. The march takes place on the second day of debates of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in which representatives of the government of Mexico will be present.
On September 26, 2014, the students of the school for elementary teachers Raúl Isidro Burgos of Ayotzinapa, Guerrero State, Mexico, commanded a truck in which, without them knowing it, the drug traffickers of the “Guerreros Unidos” Cartel had hidden tons of heroin, of an approximate value of two million dollars, headed to Chicago, as reported by professional journalists, documents, investigators, witnesses and telephone communications intercepted by the DEA. In order to recover the drug, these students were arrested in the city of Iguala, attacked, kidnapped and disappeared by the local police, in complicity with the mayor of the city of Iguala, José Luis Abarca and members of the Mexican Army, in collusion with the organized crime, according the book “La verdadera noche de Iguala” by journalist Anabel Herrera. However, the government of Enrique Peña Nieto gave another version, wrongly called "historical,” by which the students were handed over by the local police to the drug traffickers, who burned their bodies in the Cocula landfill.
The government's version has been denied by a group of investigators convened at the initiative of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, who found it "scientifically impossible" that the students had been incinerated in a garbage dump.
In the confrontation of Iguala six people died and 43 students were disappeared. Since then, the parents of these students look for their children and demand to the government to bring them back alive.
The crime of the Ayotzinapa students has triggered
international outrage; it has become an symbol of the thousands of disappeared
people in Mexico and has exposed the corruption of the Mexican government,
which continues to protect and prevent an impartial investigation and the
creation of a Commission of Truth and Justice, which has been now stalled by a
sudden ruling from a judge in Tamaulipas.
One of the parents of the disappeared students, Mr. Antonio Tizapa, lives in NYC. He is an immigrant worker who hasn’t stopped looking for his son and demanding the Mexican government to make justice. He is a victim of the Mexican government in more than one sense: as a victim of organized crime colluded with the government, looking for his missing son, and as an immigrant who opted for the economic exodus after the Free Trade Agreement that was signed without the consensus of the people. Since then, he has worked in the United States to help his family in Mexico financially.
Ever since his son disappeared, Mr. Antonio Tizapa has formed an international amateur sports group of runners, called Running for Ayotzinapa 43, to make visible the invisible victims by wearing the Ayotzinapa t-shirt in international marathons. He started running the famous New York marathon. So many runners joined him wearing the t-shirt, that now the flag of Mexico in the marathon of this great city is practically symbolized by the shirt of Ayotzinapa. Also, from different cities in the United States and the world, from Paris to Havana, the people in solidarity with the cause of Ayotzinapa and eager to end the impunity of the government in Mexico are now the shirt. They have decided to put their heart and sweat to find the 43 and thousands more.
Don Antonio Tizapa and his supporters from the Mexican community him invite the residents of New York, human rights, civil and religious groups, to participate this September 26 in the march that will begin at the United Nations where government officials from Mexico will be participating in the General Assembly. They are also invited to join their creative and sporting indignation in any of the three events that will take place later this month.
WHAT? Peaceful rally and march.
WHEN? Sept 26th, 4:45 PM – 8:30 PM
WHERE? Katherine Hepburn Garden, 224 E 47th Street, New York
NY 10017.
(To Times Square with one stop at the Mexican Consulate) https://www.facebook.com/events/292733311518538/?ti=icl
(To Times Square with one stop at the Mexican Consulate) https://www.facebook.com/events/292733311518538/?ti=icl
OTHER EVENTS
VIGILIA
FRENTE AL CONSULADO EL 25 DE SEPTIEMBRE,
VIGIL AT THE MEXICAN CONSULATE, SEPT 25, 8 P.M.
(39th Street, between Madison and Park, near Grand Central Station.) https://www.facebook.com/events/409944656202323/?ti=icl
(39th Street, between Madison and Park, near Grand Central Station.) https://www.facebook.com/events/409944656202323/?ti=icl
RUNNING FOR AYOTZINAPA. 29 DE SEPT. 8:30 A.M. (M23H+35 NY,
Prospect Park Southwest and Greenwood Ave, Brooklyn, NY US 11215.) https://www.facebook.com/events/281520126002095/?ti=icl
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