SHOTLIST:

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (SEP. 26, 2025) (ANADOLU-ACCESS ALL)

1. VARIOUS OF CLASHES BETWEEN POLICE AND PROTESTORS

2. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE HOLDING PICTURES OF MISSING STUDENTS AND BANNERS, CHANTING SLOGANS AS THEY MARCH ON STREETS
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3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) ANA OSORIO, ONE OF PROTESTORS, SAYING:

"When (Andres Manuel) López Obrador (to the presidency) came in, the person I voted for, I had hope that the parents of the 43 would find truth and justice because that was what he offered at first, he used it as a campaign, he used the parents of the 43 and they were very useful to him, and very soon after that we realized that neither truth nor justice was going to be found, because he dedicated himself to denigrating the parents of the 43 just like thousands of mothers of mothers searching for the thousands of disappeared that we have in Mexico and that makes me even more indignant because we did not expect it, at least I did not expect this and in the first year (of Obrador's mandate) I realized it, the betrayal, the lies"

4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) TAI MARTINEZ, STUDENT, SAYING:

"It's shocking how 43 people disappear out of nowhere. You don't know what happened, where they are, where, how, when, or who did it. And it's not just 43, it's thousands more. Today we're here to commemorate 43 students who never returned home, and who are still being sought to this day. But there are more. They're children, women, senior citizens, men—people who not even the State knows are missing.

I would like people to become aware and remember that the power lies with the people, not with politicians or public servants. They are public servants and we are here to demand that they do their job, and that we can be more as long as we go out into the streets and demand it." MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - SEP. 26, 2025: Thousands marched in Mexico on Friday, Sep.26, to mark the 11th anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, demanding truth and justice in a case that remains unresolved after three presidencies.

Families of the missing students led the demonstration, pressing authorities to provide answers about the 2014 abduction in Guerrero state, which sparked international outrage.

The march ended in clashes when a group of hooded protesters hurled firecrackers and bottles at police, who held their positions behind shields.

The protest came on the eve of the 11th anniversary of the 2014 case in Guerrero state, when 43 students were kidnapped and disappeared, a case that has become a symbol of Mexico’s human rights crisis.

The disappearance of the students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in the state of Guerrero remains one of the most infamous incidents in recent history in Mexico.

They were part of a group of teacher trainees from Ayotzinapa who went to the nearby town of Iguala to protest discriminatory hiring practices for teachers.

As they traveled back, municipal police opened fire on buses they were in.

An official report determined the students were intercepted by corrupt police and handed to the Guerreros Unidos drug-trafficking organization whose members killed them, burned their bodies and scattered their ashes in a river. The students were allegedly mistaken for members of a rival criminal group.

The current government, however, has rejected the official version and shortly after Obrador took office in 2018, he created a special commission, named a prosecutor and launched a new investigation to find out what happened to the students and convict those who were found guilty.