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September 27, 2018

Mexico's President-Elect Pledges Probe of Student Disappearances
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And in Mexico City, friends and relatives of 43 students who vanished
from the Ayotzinapa teachers' school in 2014 met with Mexico's
president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador Wednesday, on the 4th
anniversary of the students' disappearance. The students were attacked
by local police in 2014 and are presumed dead; international experts say
the Mexican military and federal police also played a role in their
disappearance. This is Epifanio Alvarez, father of missing student Jorge
Alvarez.

Epifanio Alvarez: "We have been filled with rage because we have not had
a government that has cared about the case of the 43 disappeared
students, the young boys who we are waiting for very anxiously. We are
anxious to hug and kiss them and say, I love you son. This is what we
are waiting for."

López Obrador, who's set to be inaugurated as Mexico's president on
December 1st, on Wednesday reaffirmed his promise to create a truth
commission to investigate the Ayotzinapa disappearances.

President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador: "My commitment is that we
will carry through with the investigation that will bring us to the
truth and justice. During my campaign I made the commitment to help
clarify all that has happened with this very unfortunate case of the
disappearance of the young boys of Ayotzinapa. We will keep to our
promise."



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