• Mexico: In search of the remains of the 43 students of Iguala in a municipal dump

New investigations into the disappearance of the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa would indicate that the young people were taken in small groups to different places near the Mexican city of Iguala, lawyer Vidulfo Rosales told Efe on Thursday.

"The test data collected indicates that the students would most likely have been dispersed in several groups and taken to places near Iguala. It is being investigated," he told Efe Rosales, a lawyer for the parents of the 43 youth, after a march the familiars.

During the pilgrimage to the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City that the parents of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa made, the lawyer of the relatives said that this conclusion was derived from an analysis of more than 10,000 calls made after the night of the 26 September 2014, the day they disappeared.

He indicated that there are no data that point to young people ending up in the Colula dump, as indicated by the so-called "historical truth" of the Government of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), which concluded that in that place the students of the Normal Rural School Isidro Burgos were incinerated.

"Cocula's garbage dump was not the final destination of the students," said Rosales, who pointed out that they are also looking for young people alive.

"They were taken alive, we love them alive!"

This Thursday, relatives and close friends of the youth, as well as civil organizations and supporters of the cause, arrived at the Basilica of Guadalupe, where some 500 protesters prayed and asked for the missing students 63 months ago in the southern state of Guerrero.

At the shout of "We were taken alive, we love you alive!", The relatives of the young people who disappeared the night of September 26, 2014 entered the basilica to ask for their children and for the truth about the event that, a say about them, they have been denied so far.

With photographs of the faces of their children, parents of the students said they have not lost faith and hope that justice will come in the case of young people, who have no trace since that day.

One of the students' mothers went up to the altar to ask for the youth.

"We are here, six Christmases without our children," he lamented and asked the virgin to help her children "to find their way back with good."

The Bishop of Chilpancingo, Salvador Rangel Mendoza, was the one who received and officiated the Mass, during which he expressed his solidarity with parents, family and friends of the students.

He said that if the truth is not found and there is no justice, the wounds left by the event cannot be healed.

"It is an attempt against the dignity of life and a sin against the lives of the disappeared and many others," he said.

The parents of the disappeared youth are planning to return to Mexico City on January 8 where they will have a meeting with the Attorney General's Office and on January 10 with the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

According to the official version, on the night of September 26, 2014, 43 young people were arrested by municipal police and handed over to members of the Guerreros Unidos cartel, who murdered them and cremated their remains in a garbage dump.

But a group of experts appointed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) investigated the case and argued that it was impossible for the 43 bodies to be burned in the dump and revealed that part of the official version was based on testimonies of tortured detainees.

The Government of López Obrador reopened the case in December 2018 and established the so-called Presidential Commission for Truth and Access to Justice in the Ayotzinapa case.

In addition, the Attorney General's Office (FGR) created a special unit, which has rekindled the hope of family members to find students.

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