The parents of the 43 students who disappeared from Ayotzinapa, in the southern state of Guerrero, on September 26, 2014, marched this Friday and announced that they will set up a sit-in in the Zócalo of Mexico City for six days to demand justice and clarification of the case, which this year turns 10 years old.

In addition, they asked President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to meet with them and restart a dialogue before the presidential elections on June 2 to inform them of the progress of the investigations.

The mobilization, part of the ‘Global Action 115 for Ayotzinapa’, took place from the Angel of Independence, on the central Reforma Avenue, to the Zócalo of Mexico City.

“We plan to be in the Zócalo until May 1; (With López Obrador) There was small progress until the issue of the Army’s role that night in Iguala was reviewed,” Melitón Ortega, spokesperson for the parents, told the media. of the 43 students.

“The Government has not made progress on this issue and supports the Army, we do not agree that the president says that there is nothing more to expect from the Army,” he added.

And they expressed their disagreement that López Obrador would receive them until after the June 2 elections. “We are not political actors, we are not in favor of one party or another, we are in favor of there being justice and truth in the case,” said Ortega.

This Friday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reaffirmed that there will be no closure in the Ayotzinapa case, which is why the Government of Mexico continues the investigations in order to know the whereabouts of the 43 normal students who disappeared in September 2014.

In a morning press conference he pointed out that crimes do not have a statute of limitations, so they cannot close the files.

“Let those who participated in these inhumane, unfair events not be thinking that we are going to leave and that they are going to put obstacles in place so that we do not move forward (…) It is not that we have already left and everything has already happened. No, and I hope that in the time we need we can move forward,” he noted.

The president reiterated that, after the elections on June 2, he will receive the mothers and fathers of the 43 students to present more progress in the investigations.

The parents and students of Ayotzinapa have stated in their latest protests that López Obrador has not kept his promise to resolve the disappearance of his 43 classmates in September 2014 in Iguala, Guerrero, although the Truth Commission created by him concluded in 2022 that It was a “state crime” in which the Army also participated.

In recent months they have hijacked trucks, vandalized government facilities and held a sit-in in the Zócalo last month to demand an audience with López Obrador.

In 2023, López Obrador assured that the Army had delivered all the information related to the Ayotzinapa case, but for the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) it was an obstruction by the Armed Forces to avoid the investigation of the role they had in missing.