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10th Anniversary of Ayotzinapa: 43 Students' Disappearance Still Haunts Mexico

Survivor Ulises Martínez recounts the harrowing night in Iguala and the ongoing quest for justice.

  • On September 26, 2014, 43 students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College were abducted in Iguala, Mexico.
  • The students had commandeered buses to attend a protest commemoration in Mexico City when they were attacked.
  • Survivor Ulises Martínez describes a night of terror involving police and cartel violence, with multiple shootings and disappearances.
  • Despite a decade of investigations, many questions about the students' fate remain unanswered.
  • Martínez and others continue to seek justice, facing the trauma of that night and the loss of their classmates.
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