After Ayotzinapa: Arrests and Intrigue
Reveal
The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
4.7 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Eight months after Reveal’s three-part series about the disappearance of 43 Mexican college students in 2014, the government’s investigation is in high gear. But parents of the missing still don’t have the answers they want. There have been arrests and indictments of high-profile members of the military, and even the country’s former attorney general. But no one has been convicted, and the remains of only a handful of students have been identified.
In the first segment, we relive the night of the attack on the students, and chronicle the previous government’s flawed investigation into the crime. We meet independent investigators who succeeded in getting close to the truth, then fled the country for their safety.
Then we explore how the election of a new Mexican government led to a new investigation led by Omag Gomez Trejo, a young lawyer who pledged to expose the truth about the crime.
We end with a conversation with Reveal’s Anayansi Diaz Cortes and Kate Doyle, from the National Security Archive. They bring us up to date on what’s happened with the investigation since we aired our three-part series, After Ayotzinapa.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reville. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm Al Letson. |
| 0:11.0 | Earlier this year, we brought you the series after Iodzinappa, about a group of Mexican |
| 0:16.8 | college students who came under attack by police on a stormy night in 2014. |
| 0:23.9 | These people were killed, and 43 young men disappeared without a trace. |
| 0:29.9 | The case scarred Mexico, and it became a symbol of the country's national tragedy of missing |
| 0:35.9 | persons and a legal system incapable of bringing criminals to justice. |
| 0:41.9 | This Monday marks eight years since the attack. |
| 0:46.7 | Our series was produced in collaboration with the National Security Archive, a nonprofit |
| 0:51.9 | research organization that exposes human rights abuses in Latin America. |
| 0:57.4 | And in the month since it first aired, there have been major revelations about the case. |
| 1:02.7 | New evidence has emerged that powerful government officials were involved in a cover-up, including |
| 1:08.7 | members of the Mexican military. |
| 1:10.7 | The name of the military linked with the murder of six of the same people. |
| 1:16.2 | And in August, the arrest of the former attorney general who oversaw Mexico's discredited |
| 1:22.2 | first investigation of the crime. |
| 1:24.4 | Rio Caram was arrested on Friday a day after it took... |
| 1:28.0 | If you want to hear the original series and you really should, you can find it under |
| 1:32.5 | Reville Presents on your podcast app. |
| 1:37.9 | Today we want to catch up on what's happened since. |
| 1:41.3 | This is Aniancides Cortes, take us back to the night it all began. |
| 1:50.2 | This horrific night in September 2014 really does start out stormy and rainy. |
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