Ayotzinapa

October 1, 2024
Lucía Cholakian Herrera

A decade after 43 students were forcibly disappeared from Iguala, Mexico, demands to uncover the truth of the Ayotzinapa case persist.

September 26, 2024
NACLA

On the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students in Iguala, Mexico, this collection of NACLA coverage contextualizes the event—and the government’s ongoing role in obscuring the truth.

September 25, 2024
John Gibler

Last month, nine years and 11 months after their children were disappeared, the parents of the 43 students ended their relationship with Mexico’s current government. In the absence of justice, the state’s mask has fallen. 

September 24, 2024
Lucía Cholakian Herrera

Ten years after the Ayotzinapa case blew the lid off Mexico’s ongoing disappearance crisis, anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz unpacks the much bigger picture surrounding the 43 students. 

June 28, 2024
Suhail Gharaibeh

Mexico City’s former chief of police is believed to have participated in the forced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students in 2014. A decade later, president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum is poised to make him Mexico’s most powerful policeman.

June 25, 2024
Leonardo Aranda Brito y Dora Ytzell Bartilotti Bigurra

Cuando la historia de la desparición forzada en México se cuenta en cifras, carece de un principio o un fin. Prácticas artísticas de resistencia buscan hacer visible la ausencia.

The Instruction (Part III) by John Gibler. "State terrorism." (THIAGO DEZAN / CIDH / CC BY 2.0)
November 22, 2023
John Gibler

AMLO promised truth and justice. The former special prosecutor reveals how the administration derailed the case and sided with the Army.

November 21, 2023
John Gibler

AMLO promised to deliver truth and justice for 43 disappeared students and their families. The former special prosecutor recounts how his work was undermined.

The Instruction (Part I) by John Gibler. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (photographed in center), then president-elect, poses with the Ayotzinapa families on the fourth anniversary of the disappearances, September 26, 2018. (THIAGO DEZAN / CIDH / CC BY 2.0)
November 20, 2023
John Gibler

Mexico’s president promised to deliver truth and justice for the 43 disappeared students and their families. The former special prosecutor reveals what happened instead.

November 6, 2022
John Gibler

Is the Mexican government's dubious new evidence part of another “historical truth?”

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