Mexico: 11 Years Without Truth or Justice – Ayotzinapa Lives On.

Featured image: Mexico City, September 26, 2025.

We hereby share an unofficial translation of a recent report on a demonstration in Mexico City published by Periodico Mural.

The streets were once again filled with anger and hope. Eleven years after the forced disappearance of the 43 teacher’s students from Ayotzinapa, thousands of us marched from the Ángel de la Independencia to the Zócalo to shout the same thing we have been shouting for more than a decade: They took them alive, we want them back alive!

The mobilization was one of the largest in recent years. Families, students, workers, women’s collectives, unions, and people’s organizations marched shoulder to shoulder. The power of memories and outrage was palpable in the air. But we also faced the same reality as always: attempts to stop the protest by force. The riot police, which according to Claudia Sheinbaum’s official statement no longer exist, were there again, with their shields and helmets, ready to provoke and repress. The supposed “dissolution” of the riot police is as false as this government’s promises of justice.

Because let’s be clear: the misnamed left-wing government has not solved the Ayotzinapa case. Eleven years have passed and we still don’t know where the 43 are. The lies continue, the pacts of silence continue, the military, drug traffickers, and high-ranking officials responsible continue to be protected. A government that protects the army and does not touch the structures of impunity is not a left-wing government, much less a government of the people.

Despite everything, there was something different in the air during the march. After months of discouragement, people were once again chanting loudly, beating drums on the pavement, and raising banners. There is a spirit of optimism in the mobilization. The pain continues, but so does the determination not to give up.

The people’s left will not give up. We will continue to take to the streets, organizing ourselves, fighting until we drive the guilty parties out of their barracks and offices. We will not allow the Ayotzinapa case to be closed with impunity. This September 26 was a reminder that the struggle is still alive, and that we will not rest until there is justice and until we build a new society, without disappearances, without repression, and without governments that lie to us. We will not stop fighting until we, the peasants, the indigenous people, and the proletariat, take power.