Family members of the disappeared demand answers at a protest in Mexico City.
Left to right: Metodia Carrillo, Cristina Ascencio Salvador, Macedonia Torres.
Image credit: Anayansi Diaz-Cortes.
Hi Revealer,
On a rainy night in southern Mexico in September 2014, 43 college students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College are pulled off of buses by police, and disappear without a trace. More than seven years later, the students still haven’t been found, the case isn’t solved and no one has been held accountable.
The one certainty is that the Mexican government orchestrated a cover-up. Why?
In our new three-part series After Ayotzinapa, senior reporter and producer Anayansi Diaz-Cortes and Kate Doyle from the National Security Archive expose the failures of the Mexican government’s initial investigation, with help from international experts. And Mexican federal prosecutor Omar Gómez Trejo gives an insider’s perspective on efforts by current investigators to piece together the details of the attack, the cover-up and bring to justice those responsible.
Anayansi and Kate also explore a disturbing connection between the place where the students were attacked in Mexico, and a sleepy suburb of Chicago.
The “Ayotzinapa 43” have become symbols of Mexico’s history of unchecked human rights abuses, and culture of government corruption and impunity.
I hope you’ll listen to our new series After Ayotzinapa as we separate truth from fiction. Thank you for supporting our work, and sharing in our belief that there is always more to the story.
