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Protesters Demand Answers 11 Years After Mexican Students Vanished

Demonstrators take part in a protest over the 11th anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students from the southern town of Ayotzinapa in Mexico City on September 26, 2025. In September 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School disappeared after being forcibly abducted in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico, in what has been called one of Mexico’s most infamous human rights cases. (Credit: AFP)

Eleven years after her son vanished, Delfina de la Cruz vented frustration at the unsolved disappearances of 43 Mexican students who were allegedly kidnapped by drug traffickers while authorities turned a blind eye.

The students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college -- whose members have a history of political activism -- had commandeered buses to travel to a demonstration in Mexico City when they went missing on September 26, 2014.

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