Guerrero, Mexico 43 Missing Students Massacre: Families to Visit Houston to Show Mexico That Other Countries Are Offering Support
Relatives of the 43 students who disappeared last year in Guerrero, Mexico, have been protesting in their country since September and now are ready to take their demonstrations to the Unites States.
Next week in a campaign aimed at bringing awareness to their cause, they will come to visit Houston, Texas, from March 18-21.
As reported by the Houston Chronicle, Pamela Martinez, spokeswoman of The People's Assembly of Houston, an organization created in November following a Houston rally centered around the disappearance of the students, said, "The purpose of this visit is for the Mexican government to know that they (the families) are getting support from other countries."
"It's important that both residents and government leaders from other countries know the injustices (occurring) in Mexico," wrote Felipe de la Cruz Sandoval, a representative of the group of protesting relatives.
The 43 missing students of Teaching School in Ayotzinapa are officially presumed to have been killed when their bodies were burned after they were seized by police in the southern Guerrero state.
The remains of only one body belonging to a man named Alexander Mora Venancio have so far been identified.
After they tour three Texas cities, the relatives will take their demonstration on to Washington, D.C., where they will meet up with fellow protesters following two different routes.
The grieving relatives are scheduled to hold a rally before of the Consulate of Mexico in Houston on March 18 from 5-7 p.m.
Event organizers will invite the people of Houston to join them in protesting the perceived atrocities of the Mexican government against its own population.
Martinez, whose organization is sponsoring this event, says the families of the victims want Americans to hear "their voices about the atrocities occurring in Mexico."
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