Missing Mexican Students Major Coverup: Forensic Experts Obstructed

Mexico’s Occupy movement has called on the international community to demand a full investigation of the Mexican youth disappeared by police and drug gang members over three weeks ago. Thus far, no official investigative information has been released, one of many signs that corruption has stymied the investigation and lies at the root of the massacre.

#YoSoy132 is asking the international community for help because of corruption and violence of their government.

“Authorities themselves are obstructing the participation of a group of Argentine forensic experts specialized in identifying cadavers, and parents of the disappeared have taken on, on their own, all the practical aspects of the search,” Mexican Occupy mevement YoSoy132 says in a written statement.

Popular Resistance, on its website, has issued the following statement in solidarity with #YoSoy132, calling on others to act now:

“Please contact the Mexican Embassy to demand a full investigation into the disappearance of the 43 student teachers from the Ayotzinapa Rural School. Here is the phone number: (202) 728-1600. Use the petition form to send an email and tweet to the embassy.”

“Please share this with others through your social media,” Popular Resistance staff urges.  “Let’s show solidarity with the people of Mexico and stand with them to end violence and repression.”

As of this date, neither the names of those captured nor the direction of the investigation have been revealed. The delays in the investigation and the apparent negligence with which it is being carried out are truly deplorable.

Authorities themselves are obstructing the participation of a group of Argentine forensic experts specialized in identifying cadavers, and parents of the disappeared have taken on, on their own, all the practical aspects of the search.

“If what happened is in itself horrendous, the general attitude of the government agencies is an affront to any sense of humanity and to the intelligence of those of us who observe from a distance. We are appalled at the manner in which the Mexican authorities have treated this group of students, some of the most vulnerable ones in the country.”

Full Statement By #YoSo132

A group of citizens, researchers, students, Mexicans and foreigners, multiple expressions of the #YoSoy132 movement in Mexico and abroad, as well as other collective solitary activists, started a series of actions as part of the strategy to say ENOUGH! to the Mexican State regarding its politics – in complicity with the organized crime – to repress, disappear and kill, not only in the case of the students of the Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa, but in the whole country.

These actions include the letter sent to the European Parliament in which it is demanded, among others:

• Suspension of (the process of updating) the “Global Economic Partnership, Political Coordination and Cooperation” between the European Union and the Mexican State, which will take place in 2015, until the Mexican State:

• a) To find and return alive the 43 missing students from the Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa
• b) Punish the perpetrators and accomplices, both public authorities and members of organized crime of disappearances and killings of students in Iguala, Guerrero
• c) Respect effectively the Human Rights of the Mexican people

Attached to this document you may find the full text sent to the European Parliament:
Comunicado para la Comisión Parlamentaria Mixta entre la Unión Europea y México_F

Thanks in advance for your attention. We trust we will have your support to communicate the humanitarian crisis our country is living and our call for help to the international community.

Yo Soy 132 is a social movement mainly by Mexican university students, residents of Mexico that also has supporters from approximately 50 cities around the world. It began as an opposition movement against the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate Enrique Peña Nieto and the Mexican media’s allegedly biased coverage of the 2012 general election.

“Yo Soy 132″ is Spanish for “I Am 132″, originated in an expression of solidarity with the original 131 protest’s initiators who drew inspiration from the Occupy movement and the Spanish 15-M movement.

Internationally, it has been called the “Mexican occupy movement.”

We are all victims.

You took them alive. WE WANT THEM ALIVE!