Relatives of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students speak out

Relatives of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students speak out
Relatives of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students speak out

Relatives of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students speak out

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Last September , 43 students from Mexico’s Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teacher Training College of Ayotzinapa were detained and disappeared, presumably by police. The students are presumed murdered. Since then, Mexicans have demanded answers, justice and closure from their government. We’ll speak with two relatives of the missing students. Cruz Bautista Salbador is a teacher and uncle of disappeared student, Benjamín Ascencio Bautista and María de Jesús Tlatempa Bello is the mother of disappeared student, José Eduardo Bartolo Tlatempa. They’re on a national awareness tour and traveled to Chicago as guests of the Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America. PHOTO: A protestor paints graffiti reading “43, Ayotzinapa was the State,” accusing the government of being behind the disappearance of 43 teachers college students, during a demonstration in Mexico City, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)