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TONATIERRA
Human Rights Commission
PO Box 24009 Phoenix, AZ 85074
www.tonatierra.org
Contact: Tupac Enrique Acosta
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Washington Post
July 25, 2023
Investigators, denied access in student disappearances, will leave Mexico
MEXICO CITY — The international investigators who have spent nearly a decade trying to solve one of Mexico’s most heinous crimes — the disappearance of 43 students from a rural teachers college — ended their investigation Tuesday, saying they have been persistently stonewalled by the armed forces.
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The investigators said they have not been able conclusively to determine what happened to the young men. They accused the Mexican military of withholding evidence, altering testimony and “obstruction of justice.” The investigators plan to leave the country for good next week.
“They’ve lied to us, they’ve responded with falsehoods. We have no more information,” said Carlos Beristain, a member of the panel of legal and medical experts named by the Inter-American Commission On Human Rights to investigate the 2014 disappearance. “We can’t investigate like this.”
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Washington, D.C., March 10, 2023
Military Surveilled Ayotzinapa School for Years Before Disappearance of 43 Students
Intelligence Reports Reveal Constant Exchange of Messages During Night of Attacks in Iguala
Mexican Military Continues to Deny Investigators Complete Access to Archives
Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema
3333 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 200
Phoenix, Arizona 85018
Arizona Senator Mark Kelly
2201 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 115
Phoenix, AZ 85016
July 26, 2023
Dear Arizona Senators Sinema and Kelly,
On September 24, 2021, we submitted a Freedom of Information Request along with the WATER PROTECTOR LEGAL COLLECTIVE requesting disclosure of records related to the case of the Forced Disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students on September 26, 2014, in Iguala Guerrero, Mexico.
On May 24, 2021, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador communicated
he had received files from the United States regarding the investigation of the
2014 Ayotzinapa disappearances and subsequent criminal coverup by officials of
the Mexican government. President Lopez Obrador received these files after a
virtual meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris on May 7, 2021.
The TONATIERRA Human Rights Commission has accompanied the parents and families of the 43 Ayotzinapa students for over seven years now in their attempts to bring accountability and justice to the case.
Although we have sent this message to both of your offices on December 26, 2021, via the email address provided on your website and the message has been confirmed to have been received, we have not had any substantive response from either of you regarding our request for assistance in terms of bringing to light the relevant information as outlined our initial FOI request.
We shall continue to follow up with your offices to arrange for a meeting to discuss the particulars of the human rights issues involved.
Sincerely,
Tupac Enrique Acosta
TONATIERRA
PRESS RELEASE
Comisión Permanente Ayotzinapa
Phoenix, Arizona –
Today a Freedom of Information Act request was formally submitted to the Biden
Administration by TONATIERRA and the WATER PROTECTOR LEGAL COLLECTIVE
soliciting disclosure of the files related to the US government’s investigation
into the Forced Disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa Rural
Teachers’ College missing since September 26, 2014.
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TONATIERRA
Comisión de Derechos Humanos
PO Box 24009 Phoenix, AZ 85074
www.tonatierra.org
Contacto: Tupac
Enrique Acosta
chantlaca@tonatierra.org
26 julio de 2023
Senadora de Arizona Kyrsten Sinema
3333 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 200
Fénix, Arizona 85018
Senador de Arizona Mark Kelly
2201 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 115
Fénix, Arizona 85018
Estimados Senadores Sinema y Kelly,
El 24 de septiembre de 2021 presentamos una Solicitud de Libertad de Información (FOI) junto con el COLECTIVO LEGAL PROTECTOR DEL AGUA solicitando la divulgación de antecedentes relacionados con el caso de la Desaparición Forzada de los 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa el 26 de septiembre de 2014, en Iguala Guerrero, México.
El 24 de mayo de 2021, el presidente mexicano, Andrés Manuel López Obrador,
comunicó que había recibido archivos de Estados Unidos sobre la investigación
de las desapariciones de Ayotzinapa en 2014 y el subsiguiente encubrimiento
criminal por parte de funcionarios del gobierno mexicano. El presidente López
Obrador recibió estos archivos luego de una reunión virtual con la Vicepresidenta
Kamala Harris el 7 de mayo de 2021.
La Comisión de Derechos Humanos de TONATIERRA ha acompañado a los padres y
familiares de los 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa desde hace más de siete años en
su intento de llevar la rendición de cuentas y la justicia al caso.
Aunque enviamos este mensaje a sus dos oficinas el 26 de diciembre de 2021, a
través de la dirección de correo electrónico proporcionada en su sitio web y se
confirmó que se recibió el mensaje, no hemos recibido ninguna respuesta
sustancial de ninguno de ustedes con respecto a nuestra solicitud por
asistencia en términos de sacar a la luz la información relevante como se
describe en nuestra solicitud inicial de FOI.
Haremos un seguimiento con sus oficinas para organizar una reunión para
discutir los detalles de los problemas de derechos humanos involucrados.
Atentamente,
Tupac Enrique Acosta
TONATIERRA
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Frente el Consulado de Mexico
Phoenix, Arizona
320 E. McDowell
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Comisión Permanente Ayotzinapa
TONATIERRA
Phoenix, Arizona
On September 26, 2014 in the town of Iguala, Guerrero in Mexico, 43 students
from the rural teacher preparation school of Ayotzinapa were Forcibly
Disappeared by federal and local police agents of the Mexican state. Six others were killed that night, including
three students and three innocent bystanders shot and killed when the Mexican
army attacked the bus the students were taking to Mexico City.
The 43 Ayotzinapa students were unarmed, they
were on their way to participate in the commemoration of the massacre of the
students in Tlaltelolco Square in 1968. Unknown to the students, was the fact
that the bus they were on was also carrying a contraband load of heroin for
delivery to the US, in Atlanta and Chicago.
The military and police agents were sent by the cartels of
the narco-state in Mexico to recover the heroin, at any cost.
Now, over eight years later, the parents, families, and the community of the Ayotzinapa continue to demand accountability and justice not only for the 43 Ayotzinapa students, but also for the tens of thousands of victims of killed and disappeared in Mexico under the shroud of the US backed “War on Drugs” and the US financed Plan Merida Mexico.
Today, the guilty parties to the crime of the Forced Disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students remain at large. In open collusion and complicity, the highest echelon of the Narco State in Mexico, the guilty parties who were facing formal court charges in Mexico and in the US, have escaped capture and detention, and after fleeing to Canada, are living in comfort with protection and political exile in Israel.
¡AYOTZINAPA!
¡We do not forget, we do not forgive!
They were taken
alive, we want them back alive!