Independent investigators leaving Mexico after eight years searching for answers to the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from a teachers' college say they experienced a 'double reality' unlike anything they ever encountered in other international...
“It’s like you’re in a movie, things are happening and you say, ‘This isn’t real,’” said Spanish physician. He said they had to figure out together what was true and what wasn’t to make quick decisions and avoid being fooled.
Last year, a government truth commission concluded it was a “state crime,” noting the involvement of local, state and federal authorities in the students’ disappearance and subsequent cover-up in collusion with organized crime. The group, which originally included former Guatemala Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz, Chilean lawyer Francisco Cox and Colombian lawyer Alejandro Valencia, served two periods in Mexico. The first was 14 months during the presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto, which did not renew their mandate after the group showed that his administration’s account of what happened to the students was fabricated.
Buitrago recalled spending months in a basement reading the 85 volumes - each more than 1,000 pages - of the government’s investigation with other team members. She said that every time they pointed to something that didn’t quite line up, something new would appear to clarify it. The more they dismantled the original official version - described by the government as the “historic truth” - the more the investigators felt harassed.said. “It was evident that there was a strategy to mislead us that wasn’t very explicit, so you couldn’t complain about it, but it was evident.”
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