credit:  M. Saint  Gomez  /  Protesters rally outside of Mexican Consulate in Manhattan Apr. 26, 2019 to call attention to disappearance of 43 students in Mexico.

By  M. Saint Gomez    DIPLOMATIC TIMES

Protesters rallied outside the Mexican Consulate General in Manhattan Friday evening to express outrage over the disappearance of 43 student teachers kidnapped in 2014 by the local police in Iguala, Guerrero.  On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College were forcibly taken and then disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. They were allegedly taken into custody by local police members from Cocula and Iguala, in collusion with organized crime. The disappearance of the 43 caused outrage in Mexico and abroad and shook Mexican society to the core.  The 43 were part of a larger group of students from a teacher training college in Ayotzinapa who travelled to the nearby town of Iguala to protest against what they saw as discriminatory hiring practices for teachers.  More than 100 people have been arrested in connection with the case but,  nearly five years since the students’ disappearance, many unanswered questions remain as to what happened to them.

credit:  M. Saint  Gomez / Photos of the 43 Mexican students on pavement at protest in Manhattan Apr. 27, 2019

APRIL 26, 2019 PROTEST MEXICAN CONSULATE GENERAL NEW YORK CITY – 43 MISSING STUDENTS

credit:  M. Saint  Gomez / Photos of  one of the 43 Mexican students at protest in Manhattan Apr. 27, 2019

credit: M. Saint Gomez / Mexico Consulate General on  E. 39th Street  in Manhattan 

What Happened To Mexico’s Missing 43 Students In ‘A Massacre In Mexico?’:  NPR  reports

NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to journalist Anabel Hernandez about her new book, A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing Forty-Three Students.