A caravan of mothers and supporters of the 43 missing Mexican students marched down Mission Street today to bring awareness to the situation in Mexico.
A forum will be held after the march (2 p.m. to 5 p.m.) at Buena Vista Horace Mann Elementary School at 3351 23rd St. near Valencia.
Juaquina Garcia Velasquez, the mother of 20-year-old Martín Getsemancy Sanchez García, said she had been on the three-week caravan from Mexico “so that everyone knows what is happening in Mexico.” The caravan started in Boston and will end soon in San Diego.
Her son was one of dozens of students who were taken off a bus in Mexico and disappeared.
The Washington Post reported in October about the recent arrest of a police chief in the case and wrote succinctly about the night the students disappeared:
The students from a teaching college in Ayotzinapa, more than 150 miles away from Iguala, were last seen alive Sept. 26, 2014, when they were crammed into police cars. They traveled to Iguala that day to protest education reforms. At some point they hijacked a bus and were stopped by police officers who opened fire at them. They have not been seen or heard from since. READ MORE
The New York Times wrote about the investigation into the events leading up the disappearance of the students.
“They all felt confusion, terror and helplessness,” wrote the panel, five lawyers and human rights experts from around Latin America.
At one point, the police made a group of students who were hiding in the third bus disembark and lie on the ground. About 10:50 p.m., they were taken away in six or seven patrol cars. They are among the 43 students who disappeared. READ MORE
