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A6 WORLD NEWS
Wednesday 28 september 2022
Families of Mexico’s missing students march on anniversary

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Car- Previously redacted details
rying photographs of their from the Truth Commission
children at their chests, report were leaked to a
relatives of the 43 stu- Mexican newspaper that
dents who disappeared had not been shared with
in southern Mexico in 2014 the families. Spain’s El Pais
marched Monday on the newspaper published doc-
eighth anniversary of their uments showing 16 arrest
abductions with conflicting orders against other mem-
sentiments. bers of the military that had
On one hand, the govern- been touted by the gov-
ment appeared to be ad- ernment were quietly can-
vancing, but on the other celled without explanation.
they saw “internal wars” in All of which has outraged
an administration that “suc- the families to the point
cumbs to military power,” that they called for the res-
the families said in a state- ignation of the current At-
ment at the conclusion of torney General Alejandro
the procession. Gertz Manero.
“There are a lot of contra- The military’s alleged role
dictory things,” said Clem- has become sensitive. Ale-
ente Rodríguez, father of jandro Encinas, the head
one of the students from of the Truth Commission,
the Ayotzinapa teach- said the former base com-
ers’ college who were at- mander in Iguala had giv-
tacked by security forces Relatives and classmates of the missing 43 Ayotzinapa college students and their supporters march en the order to kill six of the
and a drug gang in the in Mexico City, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, on the day of the anniversary of the disappearance of the students days after they
southern state of Guerrero. students in Iguala, Guerrero state. were abducted.
“Sometimes they give us Associated Press President Andrés Manuel
information, yes we’re go- Legideño, the mother of ministration, declared it er in the area when the ab- López Obrador promised
ing to act, but then we slip another student, read in a “state crime,” because ductions occurred -- now a earlier Monday that the
along the same way.” the statement. authorities at all levels of retired general -- as well as investigation would con-
That same way being the “They talk about the death government were involved the then-Attorney General tinue. The president, who
lack of answers about what of our sons, but they don’t in the disappearances and Jesús Murillo Karam, ac- has invested more respon-
really happened that night show us proof,” she said. cover-up. It also provided cused of inventing the gov- sibility in the military than
in Iguala, Guerrero and Only small, burned bone new information confirming ernment’s original account any in recent memory, also
what ultimately happened fragments of three have the involvement of the mili- based on torture and ma- defended the institution
to the students, because been identified, including tary. There have also been nipulation of evidence. saying that those arrested
the previous administra- Rodríguez’s son Christian important arrests of three But some charges against would be held account-
tion hid the truth and the Alfonso. In recent weeks, members of the army, in- dozens of other suspects able, but “that does not
current has only offered the Truth Commission cre- cluding the man who had have been tossed out be- mean that the whole insti-
“partial advances,” Hilda ated by the current ad- been the army command- cause of tainted evidence. tution is responsible.”q

Cuba approves same-sex marriage in unusual referendum

The measure which con- did a referendum on a ma- Cubans whose domestic

tains more than 400 articles jor constitutional reform in plans had been waiting
was approved by 66.9% to 2019. years for this law,” he add-
33.1%, the president of the The code allows surrogate ed. “As of today, we will be
National Electoral Coun- pregnancies, broader a better nation.”
cil, Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez, rights for grandparents in The measure had been ap-
told official news media, regard to grandchildren, proved by Cuba’s Parlia-
though returns from a few protection of the elderly ment, the National Assem-
places remained to be and measures against gen- bly, after years of debate
counted.The reforms had der violence. about such reforms.
met unusually strong open President Miguel Díaz-Ca- A major supporter of the
resistance from the growing nel, who has promoted the measure was Mariela Cas-
evangelical movement in law acknowledged ques- tro, director of the National
Cuba and many other Cu- tions about the measure as Center for Sex Education, a
Seen through a fence, Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz Canel bans despite an extensive he voted on Sunday. promoter of rights for same-
walks with his wife Lis Cuesta Peraza before casting his vote government campaign in “Most of our people will sex couples, daughter of
at a polling station during the new Family Code referendum in favor of the measure, in- vote in favor of the code, former President Raul Cas-
Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022.
Associated Press cluding thousands of infor- but it still has issues that our tro and niece of his brother
mative meetings across the society as a whole does not Fidel.
By CRISTIANA MESQUITA as redefining rights for chil- country and extensive me- understand,” he said. But there is a strong strain
Associated Press dren and grandparents, of- dia coverage backing it. On Monday, he celebrat- of social conservatism in
HAVANA (AP) — Cubans ficials said Monday, though Cuban elections in which ed approval of the mea- Cuba and several religious
have approved a sweep- opposition in the national no party other than the sure, tweeting “Love is now leaders have expressed
ing “family law” code that referendum was unusually Communist is allowed rou- the law.” concern or opposition to
will allow same-sex couples strong on the Communist tinely produce victory mar- Passage “is to pay a debt the law., worrying it could
to marry and adopt as well Party-governed island. gins of more than 90% as to various generation of weaken nuclear families.q