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April 30, 2015

Mother of one of 43 “disappeared” Mexican students testifies on Hill

Demonstrators rally outside St. Anne's Catholic Church in Detroit to protest the September 2014 disappearance of 43 students from a teachers college in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. The students from Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College were app arently arrested by local police who handed them over to a drug gang.

OTTAWA - A Mexican group that includes the mother of one of 43 students who disappeared from a teacher-training college in Ayotzinapa, Mexico, is asking Canada to take Mexico off its list of safe countries.

Published in Canada
October 10, 2014

Families of missing Mexican students cling to faith as search continues

Margarito Ramirez shows a picture of his 20-year-old son, Carlos Ivan Ramirez Villarreal, Oct. 8, who was among the 43 students missing in Mexico's Guerrero state. The Sept. 26 disappearance of so many students in Guerrero states has sparked internationa l outrage and soul searching among many Mexicans.

TIXTLA, Mexico - Families of 43 students who "disappeared" in Guerrero state spend their time praying at the teacher training college the students attended. They plead for intervention from Our Lady of Guadalupe and pray the rosary in front of a makeshift St. James shrine, adorned with flowers placed in plastic Pepsi and mayonnaise bottles and set up in a common area adorned with murals of Che Guevara and other revolutionaries.

Published in International