Vol. 79/No. 12      April 6, 2015

Parents of some of the disappeared students and supporters of their fight will visit more than 40 U.S. cities. Felipe de la Cruz Sandoval, a teacher whose son survived the attack, visited New York March 18-22 to participate in an Amnesty International meeting, a press conference, campus forum and rally of 200 at Union Square. “Wherever you find a Mexican there’s a candle of protest that is burning,” he said at a cultural event at St. Peter’s Church March 19. Workers of Mexican origin have been the backbone of protests across the U.S.

Hundreds of people attended several events in Houston to hear Anayeli Guerrero de la Cruz, whose brother Jhoshivani is one of the disappeared, and Clemente Rodríguez Moreno, father of Christian Alfonso Rodríguez Telumbre, who was also disappeared. “The [Mexican] federal government is guilty because they’ve done nothing. To them the case is closed. We want them to reopen it because we have no solution yet,” Rodríguez said at a March 18 rally of 100 outside the Mexican Consulate.

“The police protect the criminals and drug traffickers,” Guerrero said at a March 20 meeting at the Communications Workers of America union hall.

Some 2,000 people marched to the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles March 22. Three legs of the caravan are crisscrossing the country, and will converge in New York in mid-April. For more in-formation visit www.caravana43.com.

Danielle London in Houston contributed to this article.
 
 
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