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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mara Verza

Families of Mexico's 43 disappeared students demand truth and justice 11 years later

Mexico Students Disappearance - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The words “truth and justice” rang out from crowds of protesters flooding a central boulevard in Mexico City on Friday, just as they have every Sept. 26 since the disappearance of 43 Mexican students that shook the country in 2014.

Friday's protest came exactly 11 years after students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in the southern state of Guerrero vanished in 2014. Authorities believe the students were abducted in the town of Iguala as they traveled by bus to Mexico City for a protest and killed by members of a criminal cartel with ties to government and military officials.

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