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 stumbled across this article. I had assumed that these students were a bunch of idealistic do-gooders. I did not realize that what they taught was communism and that commandeering buses and pilfering food was part of their S.O.P. No wonder they made a lot of enemies.
Guerrero is pretty hard core. Has been for as long as I can remember.
Make stupid choices wind up with stupid results.
Ah that mural is ironic, now that the students have wound up exactly like so many of “Che”’s victims.
Coming soon to a United States near you...
Is that a pic of Cal-Berkeley?
Can’t tell which side is supposed to be the good guys.
That sob story about the parents traveling on less than what’s in their cell phone account is hooey. Can’t be that poor with a cell phone.
The version I know: Make stupid choices, win stupid prizes.
Che devotees? My Give-a-Damn meter is not broken, after all they were dumb kids, but it is strained.
Beat me
I won't fault the Mexican police for defending their country from the Marxist pestilence.
Live by the Che — die like the Che....
“...a Revolutionary-era rural teachers college known nationally for the ardently leftist politics that guide everything the students do and study.”
Oh well...
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
now we know the rest of the story
May be of interest to you all.
Mexican police appear to know how to handle their commies. Up here they get scholarships and extra credit.
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