The kidnapping of 43 Ayotzinapa students: We do not forgive. We do not forget

What does a country reap if it sows bodies?

September 26 is the fourth anniversary of the forced disappearance of 43 students from the  Ayotzinapa School for Rural Teachers, one of a series of such colleges set up in the wake of the Mexican Revolution.

For decades the successive Mexican governments have been in conflict with the schools and their mission to train teachers for Mexican rural communities and especially for Indigenous peoples. This has been true above all of the Raúl Isidros Burgos school of Ayotzinapa in the combative State of Guerrero, where Genaro Vásquez and Lucío Cabañas, two of the most important leaders of the armed resistance to the Mexican State during the dirty war of the 1970s that followed the Tlatelolco Plaza massacre of hundreds of students On October 2, 1968.

The 43 stuidents were kidnapped the night of September 26 by the police of the city of Iguala acting together with other government institutions and the drug cartels that supply and are financed by the U.S. market. This is just one incident of many that have cost the peoples of Latin America tens of thousands of lives due to the U.S. "War on Drugs." This half-century long fraud is used to as a weapon of imperialist domination of Latin Americas and domestically to repress and dominate the Latino and Black communities.

--José G. Pérez