After Ayotzinapa Chapter 3: All Souls

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🗓️ 29 January 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The final chapter of our three-part investigation into the abduction

of 43 Mexican students in 2014 looks at how an unexpected turn in Mexico’s politics leads to a new investigation with Omar Gómez Trejo as special prosecutor.

With the election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador as president, Mexico’s investigation into the missing students is reopened, and Gómez Trejo gathers evidence to indict members of the previous government for manipulating evidence and forcing confessions. We hear an exclusive interview with a man who was the victim of torture and learn that a former top official in the original investigation is under indictment.

Reveal’s Anayansi Diaz-Cortes and our partner Kate Doyle look at what current investigators are learning about the attack on the buses and what happened to the students who were taken away by local police. They visit Cristi Bautista, the mother of one of the missing students. Seven years after her son Benjamin disappeared, she continues to pray that she will one day know the truth about what happened to him.

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1:01.8	From the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, this is Reveal. I'm Al
1:07.2	Lenton and today we bring you the conclusion of our three-part series after
1:12.4	IOTNapa about the disappearance of 43 Mexican college students. We left off last
1:21.5	week in the spring of 2016 a year and a half after the students disappeared. Omar
1:28.1	Gomez Trejo is a man without a country. He had to flee his native Mexico after he
1:34.2	and a group of international investigators held a press conference
1:38.0	accusing some of the country's most powerful officials of covering up what
1:42.5	really happened to those students. The organization of American states had
1:50.4	formed a group of independent investigators known as the EA because the
1:55.0	parents did not believe the government's version of events. The government
1:59.4	claimed a local gang was behind the attack but Omar and the independent
2:04.1	investigators found evidence of a much broader conspiracy. They suspected the
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