Posted on 10/22/2014 1:54:55 PM PDT by BBell
The minute they heard their son was one of the missing normalista students believed to have been killed by police in Mexico, Manuel and Hilda González got on a bus and traveled nine hours to make it here, the Raul Isidro Burgos Ayotzinapa Normal School, in the southern state of Guerrero.
Their son, César Manuel González Hernández, is 19 and a second-year teaching student at Ayotzinapa, a Revolutionary-era rural teachers college known nationally for the ardently leftist politics that guide everything the students do and study.
César is now among the 43 normalista students missing since September 26, when a series of chaotic police attacks left six people dead in the city of Iguala, Guerrero.
His parents, campesinos from the state of Tlaxcala, made it to the Ayotzinapa campus with more cash in their cell phone's credit line than in their pockets, they said, and not much else.
They've been joined by dozens of other parents who are in shock and mourning, waiting for word on the fate of their missing children. Guerrero's chief prosecutor said Sunday that 17 of the victims found in mass graves near the site of the shootings are the remains of normalistas from the Ayotzinapa school, according to confessions reportedly made by a drug-dealer and a hitman detained in connection with the disappearances.
A total of 28 bodies have been found as of Monday morning, although authorities have yet to confirm the identities of the victims.
"We came just like this, nothing else," Cesar's mother Hilda told VICE News a few days ago at Ayotzinapa, where the walls are peppered with revolutionary slogans and images of Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
Her entire family, including two other daughters, live on $50 a week, she said. Cesar's parents have been sleeping at the school since Wednesday. A classmate
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I wish we had as decisive a response to riots here in the US.
...and tenure.
Doesn't the mere fact that they were murdered and incinerated by a drug cartel disturb you? They could very well have been activist Christian students...........
Their politics had nothing to do with this other than their initial incarceration. Following that, it was merely a question of how to get rid of them.......Where have we seen that before?
Yes it does disturb me. I am also disturbed by the millions who have died by the most gruesome means imaginable by the communist.
The article reads:
“In recent years, Iguala has become a key transfer point for drugs, and, as a result, a battleground for two criminal groups, Guerreros Unidos and Los Rojos, which are both offshoots of the crippled Beltrán Leyva cartel, a former mayor, Lázaro Mazón, said in an interview.”
I could never defend the drug cartels, this Guerreros Unidos is accused of doing the killings along with a corrupt police force.
I have Mixed feelings....
” the only good Red is a Dead Red....
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