Since the 26th of September 2014 Mexico looked at itself and the world once again turned to see an unconcealable reality that made itself present in most terrible way. Iguala is the place in which the Mexico of pain and death became unable to evade its own reality, the place that has filled the entire world with indignation, the place in which an open secret became a cry of pain and rage.

43 disappeared students, three murdered students, two young athletes murdered, one murdered woman. All of them murdered and disappeared in Iguala, all of them murdered and disappeared by the State. All of them murdered and disappeared by the pact of impunity of the political class.

Although right now it seems insufficient to speak of impunity because the institutions that should enforce justice not only fail to do so but they protect themselves from their own crimes. In reality we are facing a system that always finds how and who to punish, in an exemplary and spectacular manner (guilty or innocent), in order to maintain intact the great business of corruption and the brutal power structures that keep the entire country submerged in violence.

In Mexico the system is not corrupt, corruption is the system. It is not that the State is filling with vacuums, but that those that seem vacuums are actually filled with the new mutation of the Mexican State: the Narco-State. The Abarca couple is a terrible sample of the link between government and organized crime, but the terrible part is that they are neither the only nor the worst example of it; they are precisely an example of what the Mexican institutions have become. Iguala, the dead, the 43 students from Ayotzinapa are equally the terrible evidence that the actions of the Narco-State are not only those of counterinsurgency, not only do they seek the criminalization of protest, they seek control through terror, they seek the genocide of hope.

In this broken Mexico, security means to live in fear surrounded by soldiers and policemen, constantly under surveillance. In this broken Mexico, the human rights apparatuses are used to ensure that the real aggressors evade justice and are able to continue attacking.

In this broken Mexico, the former mayor of Iguala, José Luis Abarca, is accused of several crimes, but not of the one that implies recognizing the responsibility of the State, that of enforced disappearance.

In this broken Mexico, María de los Ángeles Pineda is given 40 days of precautionary detention, and Nohemí Berumen, the accomplice that hid accused couple, is left free, while those who oppose the system, those who defend the land, those who demand justice, those who show their solidarity with the families of the 43 disappeared students, those who explode with indignation are immediately imprisoned.

In this broken Mexico the powerful are scandalized when someone burns a wooden door, but for the hundreds of thousands of dead, for the thousands of disappeared, for the displaced, there are only media montages, long bureaucratic processes and fake condolences, but never justice.

The message behind the way everything was done in Iguala, behind the thousands of dead and disappeared in Mexico is that no life is of any value, that from those “new institutions” death is the way to govern.

For all this, after having the whole world expecting an answer in regard to the whereabouts of the 43 disappeared students out of a rigorous investigation, it is outrageous and painful that those in charge of doing it are not only displaying their incompetence, but also an impressive lack of the slightest respect for the victims’ families and through them for society as a whole, because their only goal is to deviate the investigations, to hide the truth.

Outrage has been growing, overflowing the streets, growing week after week. The demonstrations, actions, strikes, come to show that despite the lies, the montages, the slander and mockery from the “Mexican government”, always absent when it comes to giving answers, Mexico´s and the world´s people have made their own the motto: Alive they took them, alive we want them! Important steps are being taken in many places in Mexico and elsewhere, in which quickly new outcries resonate: #NoLesCreemos, #FueElEstado, #YaMeCanse, #AyotzinapaSomosTodos (#WeDontBelieveYou, #ItWastheState, #ImTired, #WeAllAreAyotzinapa).

Iguala made visible the political logic that has taken us to be in mourning for the more than 150 thousand dead and to keep waiting for the more than 20 thousand disappeared.

Today we join the active rage of the fathers and mothers of the disappeared students, today we tell them that we are waiting for the 43 to return, that we do not believe the farce with which they pretend to file this global outrage and rage. Ayotzinapa is the beginning of something that is growing in the classrooms, on the streets.

These past weeks have given birth to a movement that has very clear who they are, in this new process fear is being lost, it becomes impossible to remain a bystander and the possibility arises to ask ourselves: What can we do with this social energy to open a path that can allow society, from below, to impose the truth on the government with all of its consequences? How do we keep on walking in this new stage?

Ayotzinapa does not only pain Mexico, it pains the world.

Individual signatures:

CANADA: Naomi Klein; UNITED STATES: Noam Chomsky; Michael Hardt; Hugo Benavides (Fordham University); URUGUAY: Raúl Zibechi; SPAIN: Manuel Castells; Carina Garcia Sanagustin; BOLIVIA: Oscar Olivera; ARGENTINA: Nico Falcoff; COLOMBIA: Dora Muñoz; Constanza Cuetia; GERMANY: Sebastian Wolff (Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Frankfurt/Alemania); BRAZIL: Kathy Faudry; Jeferson Zacarias; Denise Lopes; Edila Pires; Liliane Bites; Walter Bites; BASQUE COUNTRY: Juan Ibarrondo (escritor); ITALY: Adele Vigo; Andrea Paletti; Franco Frinco; Carlotta Mariotti; Filipppo Marzagalli; MOROCCO: Josiane Pastor Rodriguez; FRANCE: Valentin Gaillard, Mathieu Meyer, Talia Rebeca Haro Barón (PhD Erasmus Mundus Dynamics of Health and Welfare, Ecole de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Michèle Blossier; Patrice Ratheau; Paul Victor Wenner; Myriam Michel; Hilda Leslie Alcocer Martinez; Louise Ibáñez Drillières; Crystel Pinçonnat; Janie lacoste (profesora); Michel Puzenat; Pierre Banzet; Régine Piersanti; Dominique Mariette; Nathalie Todeschini; Stéphane Lavignotte- pasteur del (Movimiento del cristianismo Social); Farid Ghehioueche (Fondateur/Porte Parole de l’organisation Cannabis Sans Frontières); Emmanuel Maillard; Myriam Mérino; Ariane Chottin; Valérie Guidoux; Olivier Vendée; Pierre Picquart (Dr en Geopolitica Université de PARIS-VIII) ; Antinea Jimena Pérez Castro; Yann Bagot; Emmanuel
Rodriguez; Marie Ibanez; Amparo Ibanez; Gilbert Rodriguez; Marie Ibanez; Jacqueline Henry; Catherine Cassaro; Catherine Bourgouin; Susanna Miglioranza; Sylvie Gauliard; Alain Martinez; Colette Revello; Fatiha Mekeri; Dominique Poirre; Laura Binaghi; Jérôme Bauduffe; Nadia Thomas; Matthieu Texier; Paul Obadia; Vincent Robin; Michel Ibañez; Lise Piersanti; Alain Delprat; Catherine Drillières; Colette Revello; Didier Collot; Marianne Petit; Janine Leroy; Suzy Platiel; Aude Lalande; Mansour Chemali; Corinne Mazel; Celia Ibañez; Pauline Delprat; Michel Contri; Ali Abadie; Mercedes Cruceyra; José Griault; Annick Laurent; Gérard Henry; Georges Gottlieb; Janie Lacoste; Michel Ibañez; Pilar Sepulveda; Rafael Sepulveda; Pascal Ibañez; Patrick Derrien ; Hélène Derrien ; Lia Cavalcanti (directrice de l’association Espoir Goutte d’Or); Catherine Faudry (Chargée de mission – pôle “Collectivités Territoriales” Institut Français); Camille Baudelaire; MEXICO: Álvaro Sebastián Ramírez (Preso Político y de Conciencia de la Región Loxicha); Oscar Soto; Alejandro Varas; Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar; Mariana Selvas Gómez; Guillermo Selvas Pineda; Rosalba Gómez Rivera; Martha Nury Selvas Gómez; María Josefina Perez Arrezola; María José Pérez Castro; José Cervantes Sánchez (estudiante ICSyH BUAP); Rosalba Zambrano; Ana María Sánchez; Tamara San Miguel; Eduardo Almeida; Enrique Ávila Carrillo; Ingrid Van Beuren; Leticia Payno; Cecilia Oyorzál; Ignacio Rivadeneyra; María del Coral Morales; Oscar Gutiérrez; Gilberto Payno; Celiflora Payno; Víctor Payno; Patricia Emiliano; Beatríz Acevedo; Francisco Sánchez; Agustina Álvarez; Mariana García; Miguel Ortigoza; José Antonio León; Sergio Cházaro; José Hugo Estrada Zárate; Iliana Galilea Cariño Cepeda; Pablo Reyna; Guillermina Margarita López Corral; Ana María Corro; Lorena Diego y Fuentes; Enrique González Ruiz; Ignacio Román; Cecilia Zeledón; Berta Maria Rayas Camarena; Judith Arteaga Romero (maestrante Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos UACM); Aurora Furlong; José Luis San Miguel; Alma Ugarte; Juan Manuel Gutiérrez Jiménez

Organizations:

SPAIN: CGT; ASSI (Acción Social Sindical Internaciolalista); Associació Solidaria Cafè Rebeldía-Infoespai – Barcelona; Centro de Documentación sobre Zapatismo (CEDOZ); COLOMBIA: Pueblos en el Camino; GERMANY: Gruppe B.A.S.T.A., Munster; BRAZIL: CSP-Conlutas –Brasil; BELGIUM: Casa Nicaragua-Liège; CafeZ –Liège; CORSICA: Corsica Internaziunalista; BASQUE COUNTRY: La Federación Anarquista Ibérica de Euskal Herria (FAI); ITALY: Associazione Ya Basta! –Milano; Centro Sociale CasaLoca – Milano; Associazione Ya Basta – Padova; Nodo Solidale (Italia y Mexico); Comitato Chiapas “Maribel” – Bergamo; FRANCE: Les trois passants – Paris; Caracol Solidario – Besançon; Colectivo Grains de sable; Union local de la Confédération Nationale du Travail (CNT31-Toulouse); Secrétariat international de la CNT – Francia; Tamazgha, asociacion berbères-Paris; Comité de solidarité avec les Indiens des Amériques (CSIA-Nitassinan); Groupe de soutien à Leonard Peltier (LPSG-Francia); La Fédération des CIRCs – Paris; Comité Tierrra y Libertad de Lille; Réseau latino-américain de Lille; Émission Torre Latino/Radio Campus – Lille; Comité de Solidaridad con los Pueblos de Chiapas en Lucha(CSPCL), Paris; Espoir Chiapas – Montreuil; Mut Vitz 13 de Marseille; UNITED KINGDOM: UK Zapatista Solidarity Network; Dorset Chiapas Solidarity Group; Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Group; Kiptik (Bristol); London Mexico Solidarity Group; Manchester Zapatista Collective; UK Zapatista Translation Service; Zapatista Solidarity Group – Essex; MEXICO: Enlace Urbano de Dignidad; Nodo de Derechos Humanos; Unidad Obrera y Socialista (¡UNIOS!); Unión de Vecinos y Damnificados “19 de Septiembre” (UVyD-19); La Voz de los Zapotecos Xiches en Prisión; Colectivo La Flor de la Palabra; Comite de Solidaridad con Mario Gonzalez, DF; Colectivo de Profesores de la Sexta; Frente del Pueblo; Serpaj; Colectivo “pensar en voz alta”; UniTierra Puebla; Colectivo Utopía Puebla; Colectivo de Salud adherente a la Sexta; Grupo “Salud y Conciencia”

INTERNATIONAL: La Internacional de las Federaciones Anarquistas (IFA); Federación Anarquista francófona (Francia, Bélgica, Suiza); RED EUROPEA DE SINDICATOS ALTERNATIVOS Y DE BASE: Confederación General del Trabajo, CGT – Estado español; Union syndicale Solidaires- Francia; Confederazione Unitaria di Base, CUB – Italia; SUD Vaud, Suiza; Confederacion Intersindical – Estado español; Unione Sindicale Italiana, USI – Italia; Intersindical Alternativa de Catalunya, IAC –Catalunya; Confederazione Italiana di Base, UNICOBAS – Italia; Confédération Nationale des Travailleurs Solidarité Ouvrière, CNT-SO – Francia; Transnational Information Exchange , TIE – Alemania; Associazione per i Diritti dei Lavoratori Cobas, ADL COBAS – Italia; Solidaridad Obrera, Estado Español; Confédération Nationale du Travail, CNT –Francia; Sindacato Autorganizzato Lavoratori Cobas, SIAL COBAS – Italia; Sindacato Intercategoriale Cobas Lavoratori Autorganizzati, SI COBAS – Italia; Ελευθεριακή Συνδικαλιστική Ένωση, ESE –Grecia; Union Syndicale Etudiante Fédération Générale du Travail de Belgique, USE –Bélgica; Ogólnopolski Związek Zawodowy Pielegniarek i Poloznych, OZZ PIP –Polonia; Ogólnopolski Związek Zawodowy Inicjatywa Pracownicza, OZZ PIP – Polonia; STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS: Solidaires Étudiant-e-s, Francia; Union Syndicale Étudiante, Belgica; SUD étudiants et précaires, Suiza