A pause in La Guelaguetza action to remember…
It’s been ten months since that unspeakable night 43 students from the Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos teachers’ college in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero went missing in Iguala. They are not forgotten. On the lower block of the Alcalá, an exhibition of sculptures by two Oaxaqueño sculptures, Victor Robinson and Emmanuel Guzman Sanchez is on display.
One of the pieces, Faltan 43 y Faltamos Más (43 missing and we are missing more) speaks to the 43 students and to the countless others who have disappeared.
Guzman explains, that he feels it is necessary to speak out on social issues. “I’m also installing a piece by the 43 missing normalistas; in this piece we find human remains and missing persons who do not know where they are; others that have been found in mass graves, and a broken country.”
Three other students and three bystanders were killed outright and two dozen people were taken to hospital that horrific night. Today’s CNN Mexico profiles one of the hospitalized students, Aldo Gutiérrez Solano, who remains in a coma. The family must travel seven to eight hours to go from their home in Tultepec, Guerrero to Mexico City to sit at Aldo’s bedside. According to his brother, Ulises, the bullet damaged 65% of his brain and “The prognosis is very bad. Still in that state, is not yet known what will happen, how it will be.” His family hopes for a miracle and that he will awaken to end the nightmare of Iguala.
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Yes, Soo very sad… But not and should not be forgotten !!
I can’t begin to imagine what the families and schoolmates continue to experience; they can never forget and, hopefully, the rest of us also never will.
It should never be forgotten…… and the ones responsible should be brought to trial by the Mexican government!
I agree, but there is doubt the truth will ever be revealed and justice will remain elusive.
I can’t help but think that such a bold move, the disappearance of 43 living and breathing people, could not have happened without the act having been sanctioned by the body politic—but why kill students? Is knowledge the enemy? or was the disappearance just a message of strength pointing to the weakness and inability of the government to stop any such actions? It is heartbreaking on so many levels and demonstrates, well, … futility of the voice of the populace.
Who knows what the reasoning was that allowed for such a horrendous act, other than the impunity that seems to be the norm. According to Amnesty International 2014/15 Report, https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/americas/mexico/ , “More than 22,000 people remained abducted, forcibly disappeared or missing, according to official records, including 43 students from Guerrero state.”