On Sunday, about 300 people gathered in New York's Washington Square Park to march to the United Nations on behalf of 43 students who disappeared in Ayotzinapa, Mexico last September. It was the cumulation of a week of actions around the city spearheaded by a group of family members of the students who have been traveling around the US in an effort to share their stories and exert political pressure on the Mexican government to reopen investigations into exactly what happened to their loved ones. As Maria de Jesus Tlatempa Bello, whose son is one of those disappeared students, told me, "We came here to appeal to peoples' consciousness, and to other parents. We are looking for help in order to get our government to actually do what they're supposed to do. Today marks the seventh month since our children were disappeared. What we're looking for is the capacity to open a new line of investigation that will help clarify what actually occurred."
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