Actual conspiracy: The Ayotzinapa student erasure in Mexico Sep. 26, 2014

A conspiracy I feel more people should know about. It involves student activists, gangs, and alleged corrupt State leadership to the top of the chain. All involved are presumed innocent until proven otherwise.

Wikipedia – "On September 26, 2014, forty-three male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College disappeared after being forcibly abducted in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico, in what has been called one of Mexico’s most infamous human rights cases. They were allegedly taken into custody by local police officers from Iguala and Cocula in collusion with  organized crime with later evidence implicating the Mexican Army. Officials have concluded there is no indication the students are alive, but as of 2025, only three students' remains have been identified and their deaths confirmed."

New York Times – July 15, 2025 – In relation to Mexico's top investigator, Tomas Zeron, (FBI Director equivalent) who fled to Israel after being accused of a cover up in the case. He maintains his innocence.

"Under pressure to solve the crime by Mexico’s president at the time, Enrique Peña Nieto, who had promised to crack down on crime and impunity, Mr. Zerón’s investigation found that the Iguala police officers had been working with a criminal group that killed the students, burned their bodies and disposed of their ashes in a river."

"But a panel of international investigators discredited his investigation, finding that crucial testimony was obtained under torture, evidence was mishandled and promising leads ignored. In particular, the presence of soldiers and federal police officers at the scene was dismissed by Mr. Zerón’s investigation, which portrayed the attack as a strictly local matter involving a corrupt local police force."

*On Israel's refusal to extradite

"The senior Israeli official cited the policies of the López Obrador administration, which has repeatedly supported resolutions criticizing Israel at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, including decisions to investigate Israel’s killing of Palestinian protesters in Gaza in 2018 and the killing of civilians in Gaza during a brief war against Hamas in May."

TIMESOFISRAEL – "Tomás Zerón tells investigators that former leader Peña Nieto and other high-ranking officials were present in meeting where false explanation was invented"

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This part is not an "official" conclusion, but something suspected and agreed upon by many in Mexico including families of the disappeared. Mexico's history of repression of Indigenous activists, student activists, and other social reform activists must be noted. Most notoriously the Tlatelolco massacre of 1968 in Mexico City.

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Freedom Socialist Party – Socialism . com – Ayotzinapa: A case of brutal state repression

"In a new book, Cuauhtémoc Ruiz documents how the Mexican government planned and orchestrated the disappearance of 43 students from a teachers college in Ayotzinapa. This exposé now serves as an important tool in a continuing struggle for justice."

"On Sept. 26, 2014, the government of Mexico engineered the disappearance of 43 indigenous students from the teachers’ college of Ayotzinapa in the southwestern state of Guerrero. Cuauhtémoc Ruiz, author of La imbatible Ayotzinapa y el Estado contrainsurgente (Indomitable Ayotzinapa and the Counterinsurgent State), exposes collusion between the political establishment, the federal police, the Mexican military and drug cartels in a brutal act of government-sponsored repression."

A pattern of government repression.

"The Escuela Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa is one of seventeen teachers’ colleges providing training for poor communities. A product of the 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution, these colleges provide free education. Since their inception, students (normalistas) have been trained to address the social and economic needs of rural people. Socialism and Mexico’s rich history of radical activism are common in these schools, which for decades have been focal points for political organizing. Mexico’s ruling elite would like to shut them down.

In December 2011, 250 Ayotzinapa students organized to demand resources for their school. When they blocked a major highway to Chilpancingo, 100 police shot at them with high-powered rifles. Two students and another person were killed. Others were injured, arrested and tortured. The testimony of witnesses and video footage established the culpability of the government. Learning from this fiasco, the authorities established a plan to crush the next upsurge of indigenous student rebellion. They embedded spies at the college and devised a scheme to attack the normalistas far from Ayotzinapa and away from public view."