In recent hours, the Mexican justice system has ordered the arrest of 64 police and military personnel for the disappearance in 2014 of 43 Mexican students from Ayotzinapa. A decision known just 24 hours after the report of the Commission for Truth and Access to Justice was known, which described the case as a "state crime" after restarting the investigation from scratch with the coming to power in 2019 of President Andrés Manuel López Workshop.
The order was issued after the arrest of the country's former Attorney General, Jesús Murillo Karam at his home in Mexico City, in which he did not offer resistance, as reported by the Prosecutor's Office in a press release. Karam, who worked with President Enrique Peña Nieto between 2012 and 2018 leading a controversial first investigation into these disappearances, is a former heavyweight of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who ruled Mexico for decades.
These 64 agents - 20 Army officers, 44 police officers - are accused, once the report of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob) of Mexico is known, of multiple charges including "organized crime, forced disappearance, torture, homicide and crimes against the administration of justice", summarizes the Prosecutor's Office. What has caused a great commotion in the country.
The report of the Secretary of the Interior (Segob) of Mexico, which was delivered to the relatives of the disappeared students on the 26th of 2014 in the state of Guerrero, in the Pacific, establishes, as its first conclusion, that the events were "a crime of State" in which authorities of all levels were involved.
In addition, the report showed that in the disappearance of the 43 students criminals from the Guerreros Unidos cartel collaborated in search and capture. And it establishes that different Mexican dependencies ignored and were negligent regarding the alteration of facts to establish the "historical truth" despite having knowledge of everything that happened.
"There are problems in the judiciary", corruption and omissions within the judicial investigation and the so-called "historical truth", which was the first version given by the administration of then-President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), the document states. .
Although the details of the investigation carried out by the Attorney General's Office (FGR) remain secret, local sources have denied that former President Peña Nieto is among the officials targeted by said body.
A different situation is that of the former head of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) Tomás Zerón, who is in Israel, and who since a meeting last February refused to collaborate with the Mexican authorities as a witness, for which the procedures for his extradition to Mexico.
Zerón is being investigated by Mexican judicial authorities for alleged torture to confirm the then "historical truth" presented by the Mexican government in 2015.
