MEXICO.- To briefly summarize what is known about the 43 missing normalista students, it is still difficult to piece together with any certainty how the events on the night they disappeared played out.
None of the many pits uncovered have turned up evidence of their disappearance.
When this story of terror began, some time between September and October, the municipal police that were arrested for involvement confirmed that the attack came from orders by Iguala's mayor, Jose Luis Abarca. They also confessed that they had handed the students over to members of organized crime.
Based on these initial declarations, two members of the Guerreros Unidos cartel [url=http://www.sinembargo.mx/05-10-2014/1135755]admitted to the execution of 17 students, and even disclosed the location of their supposed corpses. Upon analysis, the confession lost validity because none of the uncovered bodies matched the DNA of any of the missing 43 students.
Some time later, the activist and catholic priest Aejandro Solalinde denounced that "two witnesses" had confessed to the atrocities committed against the normalista students. He assured that some of them had been burned alive, and that he had been told the location of additional burial pits where they could be found.
The families of the students reacted with indignation, asking the parish to stop confusing the matter, and asking that they continue to search for their children as missing persons and not for their corpses.
Maybe the students hadn't been uncovered in the pits because they were still alive?
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This hope, more than a theory, was backed up by a "narcomanta", a scroll of cloth with a handwritten message, that appeared hanging on a high-school's fence in Iguala, and signed by "El Cabo Gil", a lieutenant of Sidronio Casarrubias Salgado, the leader of the cartel.
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The member of Guerreros Unidos demanded the heads of various politicians from Guerrero and Morelos, and assured that only then would they truly be able to end with organized crime. If authorities stop at least 80% of this sturcture, El Gil" will give up. At the end of the message, it read "The Students are still alive".
Today, two members of Guerreros Unidos, Osvaldo Ríos Sánchez "El Gordo" and his brother Miguel Ángel, "El Pozol", reiterated the initial discourse and "confessed" to the murder of the students under orders of Ángel Casarrubias Salgado a.k.a. "El Mochomo".
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Accordingly, they say that in Pueblo Viejo, Guerrero was where Ángel Casarrubias Salgado, alias "el Mochomo" gave the order to kill the students. Pueblo Viejo has already been the site of various similar findings. First, 28 bodies were discovered on October 4th, and then 8 more bodies in four new pits on October 9th. The latter was the most worrisome, because after expert analysis, authorities have yet to release the results and ID the bodies found.
The lack of agreement in the various statements by"Guerreros Unidos" has obstructed the search rather than helping it, in addition to the pain it has caused to families of the missing students. Not only do they sow pain in the families, but they create false hope that the search may come to an end, while uncovering the impunity in which we live.
Elizabeth.rosales@sandiegored.com
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