The Forced Disappearance of the Ayotzinapa 43

When a group of students from a rural college in Guerrero, Mexico, attempted to find transportation to a protest, their arrival in nearby Iguala was not received well. Confronted by police, students and civilians were fired upon, killing 6 and injuring 25. Most egregious of all, 43 students were forcibly disappeared with hardly a trace in what is likely a case of state-sanctioned violence and collusion between the police and a local cartel. Join us today as Briana goes through the twists and turns of this unsolved case.

Sources we used for this episode:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayotzinapa_Rural_Teachers%27_College

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Iguala_mass_kidnapping

• https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2021/10/this-is-what-happened-to-the-43-missing-students-from-ayotzinapa/

• https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/former-ayotzinapa-suspect-says-feds-offered-4mn/

• https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/independent-group-of-experts-to-continue-investigating-ayotzinapa/

• https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pegasus-project/grieving-parents-of-murdered-mexican-students-on-list-of-suspected-targets-of-military-grade-israeli-spyware

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/9/27/ayotzinapa-43-four-years-on-renewed-hope-for-finding-truth

• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/main-suspect-case-mexico-s-missing-43-students-absolved-attorneys-n1049631

• https://www.runningforayotzinapa43.com/

• https://www.thedailybeast.com/we-finally-know-how-43-ayotzinapa-students-on-a-bus-vanished-into-thin-air

• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57498250

• https://www.wola.org/analysis/ayotzinapa-seventh-anniversary/

• https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/28/americas/mexico-missing-students-six-years-later-intl/index.html

• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/mexican-president-confirms-witness-implicated-soldiers-kidnapping-43-college-students-n1255298

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/07/dna-identifies-second-mexican-student-43-disappeared-ayotzinapa

• https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2019/9/26/case-of-43-ayotzinapa-missing-students-unresolved-five-years-on

• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/world/americas/Ayotzinapa-mexico-students-anniversary.html

• https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/04/ayotzinapa-anniversary-amlo-mexico-impunity-security-forced-disappearance-justice/

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/parents-of-missing-mexico-students-want-answers-6-years-on/2020/09/24/b7c5ec06-febd-11ea-b0e4-350e4e60cc91_story.html

• https://www.animalpolitico.com/2020/11/auto-de-formal-prision-por-delincuencia-organizada-contra-capitan-crespo-vinculado-desaparicion-de-43-de-ayotzinapa/

• https://www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/2021/1/24/dictan-formal-prision-exmando-de-la-policia-federal-por-caso-ayotzinapa-256900.html