Milwaukee – In September, 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College of Ayotzinapa went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico.
The 43 Mexican students who disappeared in southern Mexico were abducted by police on order of a local mayor, and then turned over to a gang that killed them and burned their bodies before throwing some remains in a river, the nation’s attorney general said.
The incident has sparked mass demonstrations throughout Mexico and an international call for justice.
Last week a solidarity demonstration was organized in Milwaukee calling attention to the incident.
Tony Picon, an organizer of the event stated that ” the main reason for creating this event, Manifestation against the Mexican government, was for two reasons: first, to show our Mexican fellows our solidarity with them and show them we share the same discontent with the current government’s failure to provide security, justice and well being to all Mexicans. Second, show our solidarity to the 43 disappeared students from Ayotzinapa, to show that even though we are in the U,S. and live here, we still feel the same need for change in our political system”.
Picon states that they wanted to send the Mexican authorities representing Mexico in this country via the Mexican consul, which was here in Waukesha this past Saturday, a clear message that they stand by their fellow Mexicans not only in Mexico but in the United States, more specifically in Wisconsin, they are in solidarity with their call for justice.