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Ayotzinapa: July 26, 2023 Open Letter to Arizona Senators Sinema and Kelly





 

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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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

TONATIERRA Submits Freedom of Information Request to the Biden administration for US government files on the investigation of the Forced Disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students missing since September 26, 2014, in Mexico

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


¡AYOTZINAPA!

¡Ni perdón, Ni olvido!

Acción Global

26 de septiembre 2022

4:00 - 6:00 PM

Frente el Consulado de Mexico

Phoenix, Arizona

320 E. McDowell

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Solidaridad Internacional

 

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!